Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:24:55PM +0100, ?ric Piel wrote:
Yes, it might bring important drawbacks: performance-wise, relatime will
become more like atime, making it much less useful. There is also a
significant number of desktop computers that are turned on once a day,
the boot time may get hindered by those additional writes.
Huh? Nobody's ever claimed that atime writes cost a significant amount
of performance. The problem that relatime is designed to solve is
I believe Ingo Molnar did - http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 .
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