Al Boldi wrote: > Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > Why on earth would you cripple the kernel defaults for ext3 (which is a > > fine FS for boot/root filesystems), when the *fundamental* problem you > > really want to solve lie much deeper in the implementation of the > > filesystem? Noatime doesn't solve the problem, it just makes it "less > > horrible". > > inotify could easily solve the atime problem, but it's got the drawback of > forcing the user to register each and every file/dir of interest, which > isn't really reasonable on TB-filesystems. > > It could be feasible to introduce mnotify, which would notify the user of > meta changes, like atime, across the filesystem. Something like mnotify > could also be helpful in CoW situations, provided it supported an in-sync > interface. Here is an idea: Could FUSE be used to produce mnotify behaviour? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
