Disabling atime

[Les Mikesell]

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:

>> atime is a legacy ass-backwards default
>> That no one dared touching it so far does not make it less stupid
>> We're making more user-impacting changes with less cause every release
>>
>> Let's just disable atime asap so more testers check it before F8, and
>> forget about it
> 
> Going through the LKML thread on http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 I
> learnt that Ubuntu has already turned it off, and in principle both
> Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar want it to be that way for Fedora 8 too.

Ubuntu doesn't have a decade+ history of putting user-controled settings 
under /etc/sysconfig and providing python scripts named 
redhat-config-xxx or system-config-xxx to manage them.  Their style is 
to pretend they know more than you do about how your machine should be 
configured.  Even if they are right, there is something to be said for 
consistency.

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