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Few things need atime at all, even fewer things need synchronous durability guarantees for atime (I'm not aware of any). So writing it out in the background (ei
by the8472 4y ago
Few things need atime at all, even fewer things need synchronous durability guarantees for atime (I'm not aware of any). So writing it out in the background (either when evicting disk cache or after 24h) while keeping the in-memory representation up to date is good enough for most use-cases.
- eru 4y agoI agree. My point was that many of the items mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34387703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34387703 were pointless / unnecessary.