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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:36:09 -0700
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:04:34PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> the vfs shouldn't consider it clean, it should consider it
> "atime-only dirty".. with that many of the vfs interaction issues
> ought to go away

should it be atime-dirty or non-critical-dirty? (ie. make it more
generic to cover cases where we might have other non-critical fields
to flush if we can but can tolerate loss if we dont)

adminitedly atime is the only one i can think of now