Joerg Sonnenberger writes: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:25:46AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote: > > I wouldn't want it as a default for everything either, it breaks things > > like xbiff. > > the linux "relatime" thing seems like a reasonable compromise. > > Haven't we been implementing relatime effectively forever? I thought > atime changes are only ever written when the vnode is destroyed, so > unmount time or under vnode scarcity.
i believe you are remembering the "delayed atime updates" that mycroft implemented a long long time ago, that ad removed in netbsd-5 time frame. i forget the problem but we did not have a fix implemented or available and correctness over speed. .mrg.
