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. -- Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com "Whether or not there's hope for change is not the question. If you want to be a free person, you don't stand up for human rights because it will work, but because it is right." --Andrei Sakharov
