> Morning guys,
>
> I don't remember if this has been discussed before, but what about per
> process mount options?
>
> I just watched our backup system blaze over the fs and thought how nice it
> would be if I could enable no_atime for tar, so it really would just read
> instead of consuming huge resources because it has to update no_atime for
> gazillion files.
milliways [~/]> tar --help | grep atime
--atime-preserve don't change access times on dumped files
That is, BTW, GNU tar... Of course, if you want to use something besides
'tar', that's a different story.
Hope this helps,
-J
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