Disabling atime

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 09:43:42 UTC 2007


> atime is a legacy ass-backwards default
> That no one dared touching it so far does not make it less stupid
> We're making more user-impacting changes with less cause every release
>
> Let's just disable atime asap so more testers check it before F8, and
> forget about it

Going through the LKML thread on http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 I
learnt that Ubuntu has already turned it off, and in principle both
Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar want it to be that way for Fedora 8 too.

Happy hacking,
Debarshi
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