Re: [PATCH] Allow relatime to update atime once a day

Alan Cox
2009-03-26T18:56:39Z

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:14 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote:

> Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime. This lets
> utilities like tmpreaper (which delete files based on last access time)
> continue working, making relatime a plausible default for distributions.

And while I think forcing relatime on is a really dumb dangerous idea,
providing it so you can enable it (or distro new releases can for new
installs etc) is a *very good* one