> I would like to be able to set noatime as a mount option so I can choose
> what filesystems I want noatime on and not.
It is! I mount /usr/src with noatime, and it takes a few seconds from a
kernel compile, especially on a low-memory box.
I think it's actually a generic mount/VFS option, so you don't even need
fs support for it.
Matthew.
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