Re: noatime

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:54:57PM -0500, AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Just a follow up. Is there any danger/disadvantage in using "noatime" on a 
> big RAID array with critical data on it? Does it somehow prejudice the 
> recovery 
> from an unexpected shut down or crash? Or is "atime" just pretty much useless 
> information for most people? 

There's no data-integrity issues, but there's certain applications that rely
on atime information.