Re: [PATCH, resend] relatime: Let relatime update atime at leastonce per day

[Éric Piel]

Matthew Garrett schreef:
> Ensure relatime updates atime at least once per day
>     
> Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime. This lets
> utilities like tmpreaper (which delete files based on last access time)
> continue working.
:
Sorry, but I doubt it's a good idea. First, it breaks the simple
semantic of relatime (mtime > atime?), mixing it with a rather arbitrary
constant. Second, and most important, there are lots of workloads which
will be strongly affected by this modification. For instance, running
md5sum daily on the filesystem will cause a write for every file.

I think that to solve the problem for your use case, it's better to use
a different approach such as mounting separately /tmp (with the atime
option).

Eric
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