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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] relatime: Make relatime smarter
    On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:08:39PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:

    > The one problem with a 1-day default is that cron jobs like updatedb will
    > revert to updating the atime on every single file every day. It would be
    > better to make it slightly more than 1 day (e.g. 25h) to avoid this and
    > at least defer atime updates to every other day for files that are not
    > otherwise accessed except by cron.

    I don't see the real benefit to this. If you want to prevent atime
    updates entirely, use noatime rather than relatime. Increasing the
    timeout just means that you get increased disk activity every other day
    rather than every day, which isn't really the problem we're trying to
    solve.

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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