Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime

[Arjan van de Ven]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Another idea, similar to how atime updates work in xfs currently might
> be interesting:  Always update atime in core, but don't start a
> transaction just for it - instead only flush it when you'd do it anyway,
> that is another transaction or evicting the inode.


this is sort of having a "dirty" and "dirty atime" split for the inode I suppose..
shouldn't be impossible to do with a bit of vfs support..
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