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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 02:46:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net> wrote: > > > > If you can show massive amounts of users that will actually be > > > negatively impacted, please present hard evidence. > > > > > > Otherwise all this is useless hot air. > > > > Peace Jeff :) > > > > In another mail, I gave an example with tmpreaper clearing out unused > > files; if some of those files are only read and never modified, > > tmpreaper would start deleting files which were still frequently used. > > > > That's a regression, the way I see it. As for 'massive amounts of > > users', well, tmpreaper exists in most distros, so it's possible it > > has other users than just me. > > you mean tmpwatch? Same same. > The trivial change below fixes this. And with that > we've come to the end of an extremely short list of atime dependencies. Please read what I wrote, not what you think I wrote. If I only *read* those files, the mtime will not be updated, only the atime. And the files *will* then magically begin to disappear although they are frequently used. That will happen with a standard piece of software in a standard configuration, in a scenario that may or may not be common... I have no idea how common such a setup is - but I know how much it would suck to have files magically disappearing because of a kernel upgrade :) -- / jakob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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