On 8/12/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > >> atime is a legacy ass-backwards default > >> That no one dared touching it so far does not make it less stupid > >> We're making more user-impacting changes with less cause every release > >> > >> Let's just disable atime asap so more testers check it before F8, and > >> forget about it > > > > Going through the LKML thread on http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 I > > learnt that Ubuntu has already turned it off, and in principle both > > Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar want it to be that way for Fedora 8 too. > > Ubuntu doesn't have a decade+ history of putting user-controled settings > under /etc/sysconfig and providing python scripts named > redhat-config-xxx or system-config-xxx to manage them. Their style is > to pretend they know more than you do about how your machine should be > configured. Even if they are right, there is something to be said for > consistency. +1 Would it make sense to add it as an option to first-boot? Personally it is something I will try, but I have reservations about enforcing on everybody. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
