Re: [patch] implement smarter atime updates support

Alan Cox
2007-08-05T20:05:33Z

O> you might want to add
>
> /*
> * if the inode is dirty already, do the atime update since
> * we'll be doing the disk IO anyway to clean the inode.
> */
> if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)
> return 1;

This makes the actual result somewhat less predictable. Is that wise ?
Right now its clear what happens based on what user sequence of events
and that this is easily repeatable.