In MongoDB it is suggested to turn atime to off. atime is set by Linux on each file accessed by applications. It is reported repeatedly that turning it off will improve disk performance on that partition.

To run off atime you need to set noatime on the partition you are placing mongoDB database files. Open /etc/fstab and look for your desired partition (mine is `/var`):

/dev/mapper/mongo--vg-var /var            xfs     defaults        0       2

Add noatime after defaults:

/dev/mapper/mongo--vg-var /var            xfs     defaults,noatime        0       2

Yours may be a little bit different. Now reboot your server using reboot --reboot.


Now you can check it by mount -l whether noatime is set or not:

/dev/mapper/mongo--vg-var on /var type xfs (rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=256k,sunit=512,swidth=1024,noquota)

In the next post we test this using touch command in Linux.

#mongodb #mongo #noatime #atime #xfs #linux #fstab #mount