Re: Impact of atime updates on XFS

[David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:20:55AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 schrieb David Chinner:
> 
> > > What would be the impact of atime versus noatime on XFS? What is the
> > > recommended setting for XFS? Are there any plans to implement
> > > relatime logic - maybe even the improved one by Ingo Molnar - into
> > > XFS?
> >
> > relatime is a VFS layer construct - it should work with XFS right now.
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> XFS says:
> 
> XFS: unknown mount option [relatime].

That's because it's supposed to be encoded in the mount flags (i.e.
intercepted by the mount binary and not passed to the kernel
directly). I think you need a more recent mount binary....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group