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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] relatime: Make relatime smarter
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:13:38 +0000
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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> The one problem with a 1-day default is that cron jobs like updatedb will
> revert to updating the atime on every single file every day.  It would be
> better to make it slightly more than 1 day (e.g. 25h) to avoid this and
> at least defer atime updates to every other day for files that are not
> otherwise accessed except by cron.

On my computers (laptops) updatedb doesn't run at exact 24h intervals
- that would only happen for computers powered up all the time.

-- Jamie