Disabling atime

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 9 23:16:02 UTC 2007


On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:38:33AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >actually for various reasons i think relatime is a much better and
> >cleaner solution in my eyes.
> 
> I would appreciate more details. If you got various details, specify them.

Ingo's approach to relatime is very nice. Basically treating the atime as
having a day sized granularity plus relative changes for comparisons with
ctime/mtime - that means all the tmpwatch tools continue to work, HSM 
continues to work and mutt is happy




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