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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] Improved inode number allocation for
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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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Hi,

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:47:14PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Why start?  Who actually uses atime for anything at all, other than the
> > tiny number of shops that care about moving untouched files to tertiary
> > storage?
> > 
> > Surely if you want to heap someone else's plate with work, you should
> > offer a reason why :-)
> 
> "You have new mail" vs "You have mail".

"nodiratime" can still help there.

--Stephen

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