[Novalug] ext4 vs. ext3 vs. ext2

Aaron Porter atporter@gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 17:12:31 EDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Atime can be really handy though. For example, say you're looking for
> an old file that you know you read in the last week but you do not
> know the name with atime enabled you can find it with find.  Even
> though I find atime useful the cost of reads generating disk writes is
> high enough that I disable it on my systems.

Unfortunately, atime isn't as universal as it once was. The growing
popularity of access methods like sendfile are making it somewhat
irrelevant.



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