On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:51:03PM -0400, Mouse wrote: > >> Yes, I run 24 concurent tar -czf as a test. > > But those shouldn't do small synchronous writes, should they? > > Depends. Is the filesystem mounted noatime (or read-only)? If not, > there are going to be atime updates, and don't all inode updates get > done synchronously? Or am I misunderstanding something?
Atime updates are deferred. Joerg
