Re: noatime mounts inhibiting atime updates via utime()

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 08:23:20PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> This is especially important with solid state drives.  Those inode updates that write less-than-a-NAND-chunk worth fragment the drive's translation tables, which eventually leads to write amplification and reduced lifespan of the drive.

Yes - this originally came to my attention with LFS, where at one
point in the distant past, the atime updates were triggering
full-segment writes for every file *read*!

I think LFS may still have a local workaround for this.  Perhaps it
should be generalized.

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