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Eugene Gorelik wrote: > It is considered to be a good practice to mount file systems with "noatime" > option. > > Has anyone heard of situations when "noatime" use would not be recommended ? > > When this option will become a default one ? It's currently used by tmpwatch (a cron job that cleans /tmp, and makes it's determination based on last access). That, and various backup solutions use it for incremental backups. But it's really useless on most filesystems. There was a big discussion about this recently with all the linux kernel heavyweights chiming in: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 Matt -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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