Re: mounting with "noatime"

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 13:05:56 -0400,
  "Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA)" <jonathan w miner baesystems com> wrote:
> What are peoples' opinions on mounting OS partitions with the "noatime" option?

I do it on a couple of machines that get a lot of disk usage, but I seem to
be suffering for it as it looks like there is a kernel bug which is triggered
by using that option in some circumstances.
See this lkml thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/469
and/or this bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249563