Disabling atime

[Florin Andrei]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
> 
> Looks like we get a good performance boost and only tmpwatch and mutt 
> with mbox seems to be affected. A simple patch to tmpwatch has been 
> posted on the same thread.
> 
> Thoughts on disabling it?

I'm using noatime on all Ext3 filesystems on a bunch of Fedora 7, CentOS 
5 and Ubuntu 7.04 machines - desktops, workstations, VMware guests, 
servers with a variety of network services.

Zero issues so far.

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