Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 01:40:37 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: No atime |
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 00:13 BST From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@rebellion.co.uk>
Another possibility is to not mark inodes dirty just because the atime field changes. Or mark them dirty in such a way that they don't need to get written out until the filesystem is unmounted. This would stop those laptop disks from spinning and probably be Posix compliant too (as long as the system is running).
Stephen and I talked about doing this very thing at the Berlin Linux conference. I think this is something you can expect to see in the 2.1 development cycle.
- Ted
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