Hello!
Today, I read about the impact of atime updates on ext3 and possible
approaches on how to reduce that impact by using relatime, a modified
version of relatime - Ingo Molnar posted a patch - or two different
states of dirty inodes, atime dirty inodes which do not need to be
flushed soon and dirty inodes with other changes which should be flushed
soon[1].
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?
I just remounted my partitions on the notebook and my workstation with
noatime for testing and I have the feeling that it indeed does help. What
are experiences of others?
[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
Regards,
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