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From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>,
	David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Akkana Peck <akkana@shallowsky.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>,
	jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:58:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155128301.10228.2.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809122134.GF27863@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:21 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 1. standard
> Every read access to a file/directory causes an atime update.
> 
> 2. nodiratime
> Every read access to a non-directory causes an atime update.
> 
> 3. lazy atime
> The first read access to a file/directory causes an atime update.
> 
> 4. noatime
> No read access to a file/directory causes an atime update.
> 
> In comparison, lazy atime will cause more atime updates for
> directories and vastly fewer for non-directories.

Using nodiratime and lazy atime together would probably be the best
option for those that only want atime for mutt/shell mail notification.

>  Effectively atime
> is turned into little more than a flag, stating whether the file was
> ever read since the last write to it.  And it appears as if neither
> mutt nor the shell use atime for more than this flagging purpose, so I
> am rather fond of the idea.
> 
> Jörn
> 
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-03  6:36 [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime Valerie Henson
2006-08-03 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-05 12:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-05 13:22   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-09 14:03     ` Valerie Henson
2006-08-09 15:49       ` Erez Zadok
2006-08-10 12:27       ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-05 16:58   ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-08-05 17:04     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-05 18:36       ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-05 22:22         ` Mark Fasheh
2006-08-05 23:06           ` David Lang
2006-08-05 23:28             ` dean gaudet
2006-08-06  0:11               ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-06  3:01               ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-09  6:39                 ` Valerie Henson
2006-08-09 12:21                   ` Jörn Engel
2006-08-09 12:58                     ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
2006-08-10 11:34                     ` Frank van Maarseveen
2006-08-10 17:28                   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-08-06  0:13             ` Mark Fasheh
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2006-08-10 13:07                     ` Bodo Eggert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-03  6:29 Valerie Henson
2006-08-03  6:44 ` Josef Sipek

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