On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 08:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 21:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Matthew Miller wrote: > >>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:43:18PM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > >>>> The minority here is having atime, hardly anyone ever uses it compared to > >>>> the cost of having it. It's easy to reenable it for the few who really > >>>> find it useful and want to pay for it. > >>> tmpwatch runs by default. Everyone uses that. > >> Has a simple patch already which I mentioned in my original mail. > > > > And how do you "fix" the "find"-based cron job users might have > > implemented to clean up /var/cache from files not being used for time > > span "x"? > > Any change will have some corner cases where it will cause problems. This is not a corner case. This is the OS having dropped a fundamental feature. > We > can make defaults work good without atime and for other instances there > is always the release notes as usual. We are only talking about changing > this for a new release so users would have time to adopt if necessary. > For most users, it is just a performance boost. Implement "aging"/"time-based cleanup of /var/cache/yum" into yum and it will affect everybody. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
