Re: access times are only updated once per session these days

2009-12-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 878wd2xctm@turtle.gmx.de, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-12-17 08:35 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I couldn't find the documentation that said relatime was the default, but I thought I read it somewhere. It is the default since Linux 2.6.30:

access times are only updated once per session these days

2009-12-16 Thread jidanni
I notice access times are only updated once per session these days. $ echo xy $ stat y Access: 2009-12-17 08:27:56.971374872 +0800 $ cat y $ stat y Access: 2009-12-17 08:28:08.171376619 +0800 $ cat y $ stat y Access: 2009-12-17 08:28:08.171376619 +0800 mount(8) doesn't show noatime. linux 2.6.31

Re: access times are only updated once per session these days

2009-12-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 876386igbj@jidanni.org, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I notice access times are only updated once per session these days. I think relatime is the default. This is something in between noatime and full atime updates, that has most of the efficentcy of noatime (number of disk writes is quite

Re: access times are only updated once per session these days

2009-12-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-17 08:35 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I couldn't find the documentation that said relatime was the default, but I thought I read it somewhere. It is the default since Linux 2.6.30: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30#head-2724ab2d1934ef9ce2ebed2fef81dc51772cd790. Sven