Disabling atime

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 12:02:24 UTC 2007


James Hubbard wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>   
>> IMO, disabling atime by default, just because 99% of applications, don't
>> use it, is short-sighted. It basically ditches a fundamental feature of
>> unix filessystems and converts there behavior to "DOS'ish".
>>     
>
> If it's such a fundamental feature that should be kept around, why
> have NFS optimization documents always recommended disabling atime
> updates especially on servers where there is a lot of throughput?
>
> Just because it's a fundamental feature doesn't mean that it has to be
> used. Fundamentally, my CPU can run at 2GHz all of the time that
> doesn't mean that it should.  If 99% of the applications can do
> without it and probably 99% of the people can as well, why not go
> ahead and get disable it.
>
> Those that need atime will eventually figure out how to turn it on.
> The potential for a better user experience as well possible power
> savings seems to outweigh the fundamental feature argument.
>
>   
+1




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