Re: [PATCH] Allow relatime to update atime once a day

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 14:56:40 EST


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:14 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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, making relatime a plausible default for distributions.

And while I think forcing relatime on is a really dumb dangerous idea,
providing it so you can enable it (or distro new releases can for new
installs etc) is a *very good* one
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