* Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > yeah, i didnt mean to say that it is _always_ a big issue, but "only
> > a small number of files are read" is a very, very small minority of
> > even the database server world.
>
> OTOH, consider a popular Linux task, web serving. atime results in a
> lot of unnecessary disk traffic.
it's a big, noticeable effect on 99% of the Linux boxes.
Ingo
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