[anfractuosity]

atime refers to timestamping of files with their access time right?

That sounds interesting re. turning off atime updates, how do you do that out of interest?

[Fnoord]

> how do you do that out of interest?

Mount with -o noatime. The default (-o relatime) should however be good enough for most situations.

[rad_gruchalski]

noatime mount option