> Problem: I have 2 partitions. One is root-fs, other is swap space. I
> notice that the 2.1.x kernels have noatime built in. I try to turn it on,
> but mount complains that it doesn't know what "noatime" is. Ok, so I get
> a new mount. The new mount works. I can just do 'mount' and it says my
> partition is mounted (rw,noatime). Awesome! But doing a du -s on my home
> (about 200megs of stuff) hits the drive a lot, and the atime's for the
> directories are all set to the current time.
Which noatime patch are you using in 2.0.2x? I'm using
coneill@premier.net's patch and don't see what you're seeing. i.e.
obi-wan:/var/spool/news/over.view/fdt/news$ ls -la --time=atime
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 news news 1024 May 13 1996 ./
drwxrwxr-x 7 news news 1024 May 13 1996 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 6055 Sep 5 08:39 .overview
obi-wan:/var/spool/news/over.view/fdt/news$ cat .overview >/dev/null
obi-wan:/var/spool/news/over.view/fdt/news$ ls -la --time=atime
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 news news 1024 May 13 1996 ./
drwxrwxr-x 7 news news 1024 May 13 1996 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 6055 Sep 5 08:39 .overview
I do have fstab mounting the partitions with just defaults, and then
remount them noatime in rc.local as
/sbin/mount -o remount,no_atime /var/spool/news/over.view
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