On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:35:51 -0500, The Doctor What <docwhat@gerf.org>
said:
> I have a laptop, and to speed it up and prevent the update daemon from
> writing the HD, I have used the "noatime" mount option. However, what I'd
> really like is a "lazyatime" write feature:
Already planned for 2.3. :)
> Can someone tell me if this is possible? or would this require major
> poking at the cache/buffer code?
No, it is a relatively trivial extension to the inode cache, requiring
extending the dirty flag to a three-state value (clean, dirty and
deferred-dirty). Not hard to do, but too late to add to 2.2.
--Stephen
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