On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:26:46AM -0700, Vlad wrote:
...
> "Warning: Atime will be disabled by default in future kernel versions,
> but you will still be able to turn it on when configuring the kernel."
>
> This should give a heads-up to the 0.001% of people who still use
> atime so that they know to customize this option or start using modern
> file-monitoring techniques like inotify.
NO for two reasons:
- atime semantics are just fine in server environments
- inotify IS NOT scalable to millions of files, nor
to situations where we want to check alteration weeks
or months after the fact
In reality I would perhaps prefer mount-behaviour being altered
from 'by default do atime' to 'by default do noatime.
There MUST be an easy way to tell system that "yes, I want to track
last accesstime."
I did recently an embedded Linux PC system where the entire
system disk is a single Compact Flash -card. I tried to play
with noatime option, but the system still kept writing things,
and thus I had to do full and somewhat drastic read-only.
> Vlad
/Matti Aarnio
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