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Subject: Re: Changing the default for ZFS atime to off?
From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd suggest implementing relative atime in VFS layer first:
>
>
> https://github.com/delphij/freebsd/commit/6a199821fbdbf424027499d4a0f8f113f6943e16


Cool, looks like you were already on this. I would offer to test some, but
I'm pretty much ZFS only at this point.  I imagine there would be much less
objections to defaulting to relatime rather than noatime.  AFAIK, relatime
doesn't break any major tools.



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Adam Vande More