[nylug-talk] ext3 and noatime

[Sunny Dubey]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 11:19:37 am Miguel Gonzalez Castaños wrote:
>   The guy in blog says that could lead to some problems using make but
> he hasn't experienced anything similar, does anyone know if this noatime
> settings could cause any data corruption or any problem? We are going to
> use it probably for Subversion repositories and maybe Apache websites.

data=writeback leads to disabling the journal, so maybe it would be wise to 
just use ext2 if the journaling is not needed ?

I highly highly doubt that noatime will result in any problems with make or 
any other application.  For many many years countless numbers of distros use 
noatime by default.  Right now at least some ten's of millions of linux users 
have noatime on by default.

I think it was Linus or Alan Cox once called atime the dumbest Unix idea ever, 
heh.

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