On Nov 27, 2008 17:58 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > + relatime_interval= > + [FS] relative atime update frequency, in seconds. > + (default: 1 day: 86400 seconds) The one problem with a 1-day default is that cron jobs like updatedb will revert to updating the atime on every single file every day. It would be better to make it slightly more than 1 day (e.g. 25h) to avoid this and at least defer atime updates to every other day for files that are not otherwise accessed except by cron. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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