Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:44:03 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [Patch] BME, noatime and nodiratime |
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:35:06AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > I believe its so that we update the data in the cache, and avoid writing > it back to disk unnecessarily - consider the case where you have a lot > of tty activity (which updates atime). You don't particularly want to > be committing atime updates to disk every, what, 5 seconds, or performing > the NFS operations for the same.
OK, but at least we want to dirty the inode at some point (e.g. final close), so that atime would be monotonous - as it is, we get it reset when inode goes out of cache and is reread again... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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