Alan Cox wrote:

In some setups it will and in others it won't. Nor is it the only
application that has this requirement. Ext3 currently is a standards
compliant file system. Turn off atime and its very non standards
compliant, turn to relatime and its not standards compliant but nobody
will break (which is good)

Linux has always been a "POSIX unless its stupid" type of system.  For 
the upstream kernel, we should do the right thing -- noatime by default 
-- but allow distros and people that care about rigid compliance to 
easily change the default.


(from another message)

If you want to sort this in Fedora for example you just need to package
and announce a desktop-tuning rpm which makes the relevant updates on
install and reverses them on remove. Stick the scheduler/vm tuning values
in as well and the disk queue tweaks.

Regardless of the kernel defaults people will install such a package
en-mass...

<chuckle>  Sounds like an effective idea :)

Though strictly in the context of atime vs. noatime, servers benefit 
from that too, not just desktop.

	Jeff


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