[nylug-talk] [Bulk] Re: ext3 and noatime

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Sunny Dubey escribió:
> 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.
>
>   
How can I know the defaults that apply in Debian? I've checked man pages 
and I don't see noatime as defaults...Neither in the fstab...

Miguel