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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:28:38PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> added the relatime_interval sysctl that allows the changing of the atime 
> update frequency. (default: 1 day / 86400 seconds)

What if you specify the interval as a per-mount option?  i.e., 

	mount -o relatime=86400 /dev/sda2 /u1

If you had this, I don't think we would need the sysctl tuning parameter.

							- Ted