[OpenAFS] Fstab options for AFS on SSDs

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:22:46 -0400


On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:40:14 +0200
Jaap Winius <jwinius@umrk.nl> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Recently I've started using SSDs in both servers and workstations and  
> this article -- https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization -- offers some  
> suggestions on which options to use in /etc/fstab, e.g.  
> "discard,noatime,commit=600,defaults" for /boot. But would it be okay  
> to use these options for /vicepX and AFS cache partitions as well?

If you are using the namei fileservers, noatime is safe.  The other
options are specific to SSD but shouldn't adversely affect the
fileserver.