I&#x27;ve been using noatime forever (since 2002 or so) on my laptops&#x2F;desktops and IIRC also all the servers that I set up myself, and a couple other servers I just checked have relatime (Debian default?), without any issue, although all of those machines only ran software of my choice and thus a relatively limited range.<p>I even started somewhat relying on atime being the (otherwise non-existant at the time) &quot;inode creation time&quot; when using &#x27;noatime&#x27;, and was a bit upset when I realized that mounts created with &quot;mount --bind&quot; would lose the noatime setting (an explicit &quot;mount -o remount,noatime&quot; is required on the new mount point).<p>I also used Samba around 2002, but am not sure whether I used noatime already with it.