Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:17:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:17:46 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:49423 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:17:45 -0500 To: John Bradford Cc: phillips@arcor.de (Daniel Phillips), ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger@clusterfs.com, chrisl@vmware.com, bzzz@tmi.comex.ru Subject: Re: [RFC] Improved inode number allocation for HTree X-Yow: Talking Pinhead Blues: Oh, I LOST my ``HELLO KITTY'' DOLL and I get BAD reception on channel TWENTY-SIX!! Th'HOSTESS FACTORY is closin' down and I just heard ZASU PITTS has been DEAD for YEARS.. (sniff) My PLATFORM SHOE collection was CHEWED up by th'dog, ALEXANDER HAIG won't let me take a SHOWER 'til Easter.. (snurf) So I went to the kitchen, but WALNUT PANELING whup me upside mah HAID!! (on no, no, no.. Heh, heh) From: Andreas Schwab Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:28:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200303102104.h2AL43iZ000875@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (John Bradford's message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:04:03 +0000 (GMT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 References: <200303102104.h2AL43iZ000875@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 26 John Bradford writes: |> > Though the journal only becomes involved when blocks are modified, |> > unfortunately, because of atime updates, this includes all directory |> > operations. We could suggest to users that they should disable |> > atime updating if they care about performance, but we ought to be |> > able to do better than that. |> |> On a separate note, since atime updates are not usually very important |> anyway, why not have an option to cache atime updates for a long time, |> or until either a write occurs anyway. mount -o noatime Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/