Re: noatime on ufs2

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote:i

> So, to me, at this point, it still sounds more than a gimmick 
> than something really useful.  If someone has a precise use case 
> for it and motivation, than of course please go ahead.

The only use-cases I [1] can think of are either with an email system 
that needs it or with something like a webserver where there's
a team of devops working on the web service who need elevated access
and a couple of sysadmins who need root for their general job, and audit
or similar is used to log these accesses.

But maybe there are more use-cases for atime? 

but as has been mentioned, most modern mail systems don't need it
and I'm not sure how much something like audit would. Do things
like tripwire/mtree need it? It's an interesting question.

[1] in my limited experience. i've only seen email "needing" it
and that's only in some contexts
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