Hi all,
We would need the same feature in our HPC cluster. I guess this is not an 
unfrequent problem, I was wondering if you guys found an alternative solution.

Best
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On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:32:35 CET Oliver Freyermuth wrote:
> Am 16.12.19 um 11:43 schrieb Gregory Farnum:
> > Yes, CephFS makes no attempt to maintain atime. If that's something
> > you care about you should make a ticket and a case for why it's
> > important. :)
> 
> Thanks for confirming :-). 
> For those following along and also interested, I created the ticket here:
> https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/43337
> Our use case (probably applicable to many clusters - also described there) is 
> "cleanup", i.e. find data not read since months
> which might be a good candidate for deletion (or maybe, moving to a "colder" 
> place). 
> 
> Cheers and thanks,
>       Oliver
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 5:42 AM Oliver Freyermuth
> > <freyerm...@physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi together,
> >>
> >> I had a look at ceph-fuse code and if I read it correctly, it does indeed 
> >> not seem to have the relatime behaviour since kernels 2.6.30 implemented.
> >> Should I open a ticket on this?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>         Oliver
> >>
> >> Am 02.12.19 um 14:31 schrieb Oliver Freyermuth:
> >>> I was thinking about the behaviour of relatime on kernels since 2.6.30 
> >>> (quoting mount(8)):
> >>> --------------------
> >>> "Update inode access times relative to modify or change time.  Access 
> >>> time is only updated if the previous access time was earlier than the 
> >>> current modify or change time.  (Similar to
> >>>  noatime, but it doesn't break mutt or other applications that need to 
> >>> know if a file has been read since the last time it was modified.)
> >>>
> >>>  Since Linux 2.6.30, the kernel defaults to the behavior provided by this 
> >>> option (unless noatime was specified),
> >>>  and the strictatime option is required to obtain traditional semantics.  
> >>> In addition, since
> >>>  Linux 2.6.30, the file's last access time is always updated if it is 
> >>> more than 1 day old."
> >>> --------------------
> >>
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