Hard drives use a lot of power, which is an issue on laptops. RedHat 7.1 is not ideal on laptops -- the drive never gets a chance to spin down for very long. Something writes to the disk. I've fixed this on my system, and suggest RedHat does the same by default. I suggest that RH make two small modifications for a "laptop" install. The second is in /etc/fstab. Add the "noatime" option. For a laptop the small loss of functionality is well worth the additional spin down time, lower power consumption, noise reduction and lowered danger (of disk writes).
See also bug #44665
(fixing version) To do this as part of a laptop install class, this would need to be done in the installer.
After doing the laptop, I changed my desktops to match. Somebody must want "atime", or it would not be there, but I can't think of any use for a personal workstation.
deferred; not on feature list
Seems like a kudzu issue.
Kudzu? Seems like a system defaults or laptop-class installation issue.
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