Disabling atime
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 20:23:18 UTC 2007
Andrew Parker wrote:
> On 8/12/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>> Ubuntu doesn't have a decade+ history of putting user-controled settings
>> under /etc/sysconfig and providing python scripts named
>> redhat-config-xxx or system-config-xxx to manage them. Their style is
>> to pretend they know more than you do about how your machine should be
>> configured. Even if they are right, there is something to be said for
>> consistency.
>
> +1
>
> Would it make sense to add it as an option to first-boot? Personally
> it is something I will try, but I have reservations about enforcing on
> everybody.
I have to wonder what they've done with the guy who put all those other
settings under /etc/sysconfig or why he didn't do this one too a long
time ago.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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