Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] Improved inode number allocation for HTree | Date | Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:27:53 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > > Why start? Who actually uses atime for anything at all, other than the > > > tiny number of shops that care about moving untouched files to tertiary > > > storage?
What about the situation where the primary storage is a device which has a limited number of write-cycles. That's just the sort of application where you might be archiving data to secondary or tertiary storage, and it would be a big advantage to save on writes. If a file is read every ten minutes, we could just update the atime once an hour. That would save five writes an hour.
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