On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 13:05:56 -0400, "Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA)" <jonathan.w.miner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What are peoples' opinions on mounting OS partitions with the "noatime" option? I do it on a couple of machines that get a lot of disk usage, but I seem to be suffering for it as it looks like there is a kernel bug which is triggered by using that option in some circumstances. See this lkml thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/469 and/or this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249563