From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: 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>,
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.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: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:39:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809063947.GA13474@goober> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060806030147.GG4379@parisc-linux.org>
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:01:47PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:28:29PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> > you can work around mutt's silly dependancy on atime by configuring it
> > with --enable-buffy-size. so far mutt is the only program i've discovered
> > which cares about atime.
>
> For the shell, atime is the difference between 'you have mail' and 'you
> have new mail'.
>
> I still don't understand though, how much does this really buy us over
> nodiratime?
Lazy atime buys us a reduction in writes over nodiratime for any
workload which reads files, such as grep -r, a kernel compile, or
backup software. Do I misunderstand the question?
-VAL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 6:40 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 [this message]
2006-08-09 12:21 ` Jörn Engel
2006-08-09 12:58 ` Dave Kleikamp
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
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2006-08-03 6:29 Valerie Henson
2006-08-03 6:44 ` Josef Sipek
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