Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:55:22 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, mingo@elte.hu, tytso@mit.edu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow relatime to update atime once a day
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:14 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote:

> Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime. This lets
> utilities like tmpreaper (which delete files based on last access time)
> continue working, making relatime a plausible default for distributions.

And while I think forcing relatime on is a really dumb dangerous idea,
providing it so you can enable it (or distro new releases can for new
installs etc) is a *very good* one
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