Re: [RFC] Improved inode number allocation for HTree

Andreas Schwab
2003-03-10T21:17:46Z

John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes:

|> > Though the journal only becomes involved when blocks are modified,
|> > unfortunately, because of atime updates, this includes all directory
|> > operations. We could suggest to users that they should disable
|> > atime updating if they care about performance, but we ought to be
|> > able to do better than that.
|>
|> On a separate note, since atime updates are not usually very important
|> anyway, why not have an option to cache atime updates for a long time,
|> or until either a write occurs anyway.

mount -o noatime

Andreas.

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