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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:36:48 -0600
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From: Sean O'Neill <sean@seanoneill.info>
Subject: noatime switch on local mount - anything really need the atime
  field ?
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Does anything really use the atime field of inodes?

Reading that atime update really isn't that big of a hit for casual systems 
(expect for make world stuff) like mine but hey, never hurts to get a 
little more performance out of my box :)


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