linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow relatime to update atime once a day

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Message-ID: <20090326185522.42995ca3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:55:22 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, mingo@...e.hu, tytso@....edu,
	jack@...e.cz, arjan@...radead.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	npiggin@...e.de, jens.axboe@...cle.com, drees76@...il.com,
	jesper@...gh.cc, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oleg@...hat.com,
	roland@...hat.com, willy@...ux.intel.com, vaurora@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow relatime to update atime once a day

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:14 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> wrote:

> Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime. This lets
> utilities like tmpreaper (which delete files based on last access time)
> continue working, making relatime a plausible default for distributions.

And while I think forcing relatime on is a really dumb dangerous idea,
providing it so you can enable it (or distro new releases can for new
installs etc) is a *very good* one
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