Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make relatime default | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:52:33 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 16:42 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:48:38PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:53:14 +0000 > > Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > Change the default behaviour of the kernel to use relatime for all > > > filesystems. This can be overridden with the "strictatime" mount > > > option. > > > > NAK this again > > NAK but because if we change the default it is better to change it to > the real thing: noatime. > > I think this can be solved in userland but perhaps changing this in > kernel would be a stronger message that atime is officially > obsoleted. (and nothing will break, not even mutt users will notice, > and if they really do it won't be anything more than aesthetical)
Actually I liked the previous relatime (without the 24h hack) pretty much. It would have preserved the atime functionality without making something like slocate dirty huge parts of the fs daily.
I vote for relatime-without-24h-hack !
Xav
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