From 7033187f5e40ee228bd4b356b16242653d611e04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aminda Suomalainen <suomalainen+git@mikaela.info>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:01:10 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] n/essentialsoftware: under the threat of pain, noatime

---
 n/essentialsoftware.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/n/essentialsoftware.md b/n/essentialsoftware.md
index e878941..2cab40d 100644
--- a/n/essentialsoftware.md
+++ b/n/essentialsoftware.md
@@ -98,3 +98,7 @@ issue):
 - `sudo systemctl enable --now fstrim.timer`
 - check that `/etc/fstab` has `noatime` so every file access isn't written to
   the disk. BTRFS filesystems should also have `ssd` flag.
+  - NEVER ENABLE `atime`, `relatime` or `norelatime` under the threat of
+    suffering especially on BTRFS. I have been doing fine without it for years,
+    it will not help any issue, unless you want read operations to cause writes
+    and eat space...