[Nottingham] atime again...

[Mike Cardwell]

* on the Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Martin wrote:

> Why atime and does /anyone/ use it anywhere?

I've disabled it on all of my systems for years and have never noticed
any issues.

[snip]

> Does anything or anyone make any use of atime other than for doing
> filesystem access pattern analysis/forensics?

[snip] 

> The /only/ use case I know is where Mutt monitors atime for mbox files.
> However, that is an old obsolete way of doing things. As far as I know,
> there are *no other use cases* ...

Mutt is also the only case I have ever read about where the atime is
used.

> Should we have noatime as the new default for mounting filesystems?

Yes.

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