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From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] relatime: Let relatime update atime at least
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:53:05 +0000
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:24:55PM +0100, ?ric Piel wrote:
>> Yes, it might bring important drawbacks: performance-wise, relatime will
>> become more like atime, making it much less useful. There is also a
>> significant number of desktop computers that are turned on once a day,
>> the boot time may get hindered by those additional writes.
> 
> Huh?  Nobody's ever claimed that atime writes cost a significant amount
> of performance.  The problem that relatime is designed to solve is

I believe Ingo Molnar did - http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 .