Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:39:49 -0700 | From | Valerie Henson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime |
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:01:47PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:28:29PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > you can work around mutt's silly dependancy on atime by configuring it > > with --enable-buffy-size. so far mutt is the only program i've discovered > > which cares about atime. > > For the shell, atime is the difference between 'you have mail' and 'you > have new mail'. > > I still don't understand though, how much does this really buy us over > nodiratime?
Lazy atime buys us a reduction in writes over nodiratime for any workload which reads files, such as grep -r, a kernel compile, or backup software. Do I misunderstand the question?
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