On 8/9/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 03:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 > > > > Looks like we get a good performance boost and only tmpwatch and mutt > > with mbox seems to be affected. A simple patch to tmpwatch has been > > posted on the same thread. > > > > Thoughts on disabling it? > IMO, disabling atime by default, just because 99% of applications, don't > use it, is short-sighted. It basically ditches a fundamental feature of > unix filessystems and converts there behavior to "DOS'ish". > > That said, I feel "noatime" might be suitable for selected partitions, > but not as a general solution. > > Also, I never understood what noatime solves what mounting partitions > read-only can't do more properly. > > Ralf Considering how easy it is for knowledgeable users to make disable atime, I don't see it as necessary to make this so by default. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
