eggcups and magicdev are two bad offenders of keeps the hard drive annoyed. A solution for eggcups (actual package name is desktop-printing) exists in rawhide: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89696 But, looks like magicdev is still worshipping the file-polling god: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89908 magicdev is stat'ing /etc/mtab and open'ing /dev/cdrom every second. The filesystem must flush the atime change every few seconds. So, how about stat'ing /proc/mounts instead? Why does /mnt/mtab even exist nowadays? It doesn't seem fair. We should create an /etc equivelant file for ever /proc file and poll the living gonads out of the filesystem. -eric wood
