ext4 defaults and access time

[Andras Simon]

On 2/3/10, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone explain why it would be desirable to go to atime for the
> mounts, which I understand is an expensive option in terms of IO? I
> thought that the move to relative as default was a carefully
> considered issue by kernel developers?

I don't remember anyone saying it was desirable. I needed it for
debugging purposes.

Andras