Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:13:38 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] relatime: Make relatime smarter |
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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.
On my computers (laptops) updatedb doesn't run at exact 24h intervals - that would only happen for computers powered up all the time.
-- Jamie
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