How useful is it to disable access time logging on SSD and are there disadvantages doing so?
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As SSD drives have limited writes, I would like to know whether disabling access time logging still plays a significant role in 2021. Most websites I see on the subject are from 2015 and before, and SSD might be more robust nowadays.
I don't really realise how SSD writes are managed on Linux systems with respect to cacheing, nor do I know how many files are actually concerned by those logs or whether all or only some of the accessed files are updated to include access times.
My final question concern the disadvantages of disabling access time logging. What services use access times? Will something break? Is there something I should know?
Thanks in advance!
PS: I am using Ubuntu 21.04 for daily usage on a 300 GB partition on SSD. My computer model was released mid-2020.
Asked by Johannes Lemonde
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Apr 21, 2021, 07:00 PM
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