[PLUG] (no)atime redux

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

Looks like I was a few weeks premature:

relatime (which I'd never heard of before) will ship in Ubuntu 8.04:

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=495418&cid=22819240
Not a typo (Score:5, Informative)
by GerbilSoft (761537) on Friday March 21, @10:51AM (#22819240)
The "relatime" mount option tells the filesystem to update atime only 
when it is older than mtime or ctime. This is better than turning off 
atime entirely, but doesn't have the performance issues of the older 
atime functionality.

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta
"... File systems are now mounted with the relatime mount option by 
default, for improved performance. ..."

See also: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

Sweet!
JP
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