Re: support for noatime

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:50:51PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 
> For mbox files (and possibly similar cases), there's only a handful of
> interested readers, thus they can be patched to touch atime by hand instead
> of relying on a system-wide mount option.

Something that could be done is to set the A flag on the root file
system before installing any packages via "chattr +A /".  This will
cause the noatime flag to be inherited by all subdirectories and
files.  The file owner can then remove the 'A' flag for those mbox
files where you want the atime field to be updated.

The advantage of doing this is that it doesn't require any kernel changes.

    	      	       	       	       - Ted