Re: [Patch] BME, noatime and nodiratime

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:35:06AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> I believe its so that we update the data in the cache, and avoid writing
> it back to disk unnecessarily - consider the case where you have a lot
> of tty activity (which updates atime).  You don't particularly want to
> be committing atime updates to disk every, what, 5 seconds, or performing
> the NFS operations for the same.

OK, but at least we want to dirty the inode at some point (e.g. final
close), so that atime would be monotonous - as it is, we get it reset
when inode goes out of cache and is reread again...
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