On Sat, 4 August 2007 14:08:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >The "relatime" thing that David mentioned might well be very useful, but > >it's probably even less used than "noatime" is. And sadly, I don't really > >see that changing (unless we were to actually change the defaults inside > >the kernel). > > I actually vote for that. IMO, distros should turn -on- atime updates > when they know its needed.
If you mean "relatime" I concur. "noatime" hurts mutt and others while "relatime" has no known problems, afaics. Jörn -- Joern's library part 5: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part2/section-9.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
