Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:37:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 speedup (No atime update), concerns |
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On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Erik Corry wrote:
> : well one such little point is POSIX conformance > > Yes, the default should remain to update the atime, but there may > well be people who don't mind losing a little POSIX conformance in > return for better performance. Me for example. > > This patch could also be useful for people who spin down their disk > drives after a certain period of inactivity. At the moment the > disk gets spun up again to write the atime every time some daemon > (like cron) wakes up and reads a file that was in the cache anyway. > So it will probably be popular with laptop owners. > > I'll be using this patch, and I hope it makes it into 2.1.
i got warned by the author, that you cant use this for ordinary filesytstems, since some applications rely on this behaviour. One thing is "new mail checking". I'm sure i dont want to loose/change such a feature
Things get messy if you go breaking standards :(
-- mingo
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