Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:18:52 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > I always thought the right solution would be to just sync atime only > very very lazily. This means if a inode is only dirty because of an > atime update put it on a "only write out when there is nothing to do > or the memory is really needed" list. > Seems like a good idea. atimes will then be written only by memory pressure - or umount. The atimes could be wrong after a crash, but loosing atimes only is not something I'd worry about.
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