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mount -o remount,ro,noatime

As the title says - if the filesystem is actually read-only, does noatime have any affect?

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Short answer: No.

If the filesystem is mounted read-only, then the kernel module should be sufficiently smart to not even think about writing atime entries for accessed files, because that would constitute a ... write, which is verboten by the read-only status.

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No, read only means read only, if you told it to not write to it it will not write access times to it.

For more information, see man fstab.

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I see, if you do not mind me asking - source on that? – gng Oct 20 '11 at 11:19
My experience :-) No, really: ro means NO writes at all. Everything else may safely considered as bug. – ktf Oct 20 '11 at 11:23
I'm not sure about that. It might that VFS handles noatime somehow different. A little bit of google search shows lots of people using both at the same time, but I couldn't get any source about why doing it or not, neihter in the man pages. – Jens Erat Oct 20 '11 at 11:53
On my system the man page stated ro means "read-only" (phew, lucky me). Adding noatime to ro helps as much as finger-crossing: Will do no harm! – ktf Oct 20 '11 at 13:05

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