Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
>
> Looks like we get a good performance boost and only tmpwatch and mutt
> with mbox seems to be affected. A simple patch to tmpwatch has been
> posted on the same thread.
>
> Thoughts on disabling it?

I'm using noatime on all Ext3 filesystems on a bunch of Fedora 7, CentOS
5 and Ubuntu 7.04 machines - desktops, workstations, VMware guests,
servers with a variety of network services.

Zero issues so far.