Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751053AbWHIPth (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:49:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751067AbWHIPtg (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:49:36 -0400 Received: from filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu ([130.245.126.2]:31426 "EHLO filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053AbWHIPte (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:49:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:49:09 -0400 Message-Id: <200608091549.k79Fn9Ht020260@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> From: Erez Zadok To: Valerie Henson Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Akkana Peck , Mark Fasheh , Jesse Barnes , Chris Wedgwood , jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu, Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:03:49 PDT." <20060809140349.GE13474@goober> X-MailKey: Erez_Zadok Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 546 Lines: 11 BTW, there may be another atime mode to consider, which I believe is what Windows XP does w/ NTFS: only update the atime if it's newer than the on-disk file's atime by N seconds (defaults to one hour, but I believe it's configurable). There could be scenarios in which this mode is preferable. Erez. - 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/