On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:08:39PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > 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. Doesn't updatedb only access directories, not files? I don't think relatime implies nodiratime, but certainly the two could both be specified, and that would fix one of the updatedb problems. Are there any other common cronjobs you're concerned about? -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
