On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 07:26 -0700, Vlad wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > Relatime seems to be wasteful of both IO resources _and_ CPU cycles. > Instead of performing a single IO operation (as atime does), relatime > performs at least three IO operations and three CPU-dependent > operations:
> > 1) a read IO operation to find out the old atime > 2) a read IO operation to find out the old ctime > 3) a read IO operation to find out the old mtime you've mistaken the concept of inode-in-memory... there is no IO involved in any of these. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/