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Re: filesystem mount with "noatime" option



 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 

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