NO_ATIME patch, wherefore art thou?

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:08:47 +1000

Hi, all. I've trawled the configuration files for 2.0.30 and 2.1.42
and can't find that NO_ATIME patch I remember hearing about when
2.0.30 came out. Could some kind soul tell me where it is?
I've got a laptop with 2.0.30 and I've set the HD spindown timeout to
40 seconds, but something causes it to spin up every minute or so. I
presume that's the bdflush daemon. This is on a totally idle system,
so it doesn't quite make sense: I would have thought once buffers are
flushed, there is no point doing it again... Even killing off all my
daemons (even syslogd) doesn't help.

Regards,

Richard....