Posted Tuesday 9th June 2009 15:56 GMT
Oh good God no!
"Hey, we're getting to the point technically and reputation-wise where a non-technical businessman might consider us a viable alternative to MS"
"I've got an awesome idea! Lets add Facebook to it!"
Posted Tuesday 9th June 2009 17:06 GMT
Still no games?
Paris, 'cause she knows how to play !
Posted Tuesday 9th June 2009 19:24 GMT
atime sucks on things like server farms too, chatty. Which is why when mounting filesystems for Apache Hadoop, the docs say "use noatime": http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/DiskSetup
you can do this for your laptops today, no need to upgrade to a bleeding edge fedora release.
Posted Wednesday 10th June 2009 00:00 GMT
Steve Loughran asks, "why not just turn atime off altogether "
Many people do!
Under Solaris, atime can be deferred (UFS option, ZFS default), or disabled (both UFS an ZFS) - it is nice to see this in Fedora!
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/nvm_boot.jsp
Other people use the "atime" to find what content can be moved to slower storage or archived off entirely.
Posted Wednesday 10th June 2009 07:12 GMT
Most (at least desktop) distros already turn off atime by default, eg. Mandriva does. I think the idea is that relatime is now the default in the kernel so it doesn't require the distro makers (or sys admins or anyone else) having the presence of mind to ensure that their scripts etc. always explicitly add the noatime option in /etc/fstab
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