* Jeff Garzik [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

yeah, i didnt mean to say that it is _always_ a big issue, but "only 
a small number of files are read" is a very, very small minority of 
even the database server world.

OTOH, consider a popular Linux task, web serving.  atime results in a 
lot of unnecessary disk traffic.

it's a big, noticeable effect on 99% of the Linux boxes.

	Ingo

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