Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751449AbWHEXLr (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:11:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751428AbWHEXLr (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:11:47 -0400 Received: from warden-p.diginsite.com ([208.29.163.248]:24011 "HELO warden.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751421AbWHEXLq (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:11:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 16:06:47 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@dlang.diginsite.com To: Mark Fasheh cc: Chris Wedgwood , Arjan van de Ven , Dave Kleikamp , Christoph Hellwig , Valerie Henson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Akkana Peck , Jesse Barnes , jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu, Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime In-Reply-To: <20060805222247.GQ29686@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Message-ID: References: <20060803063622.GB8631@goober> <20060805122537.GA23239@lst.de> <1154797123.12108.6.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <1154797475.3054.79.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060805183609.GA7564@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20060805222247.GQ29686@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 22 On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >> should it be atime-dirty or non-critical-dirty? (ie. make it more >> generic to cover cases where we might have other non-critical fields >> to flush if we can but can tolerate loss if we dont) > So, just to be sure - we're fine with atime being lost due to crashes, > errors, etc? at least as a optional mode of operation yes. I'm sure someone will want/need the existing 'update atime immediatly', and there are people who don't care about atime at all (and use noatime), but there is a large middle ground between them where atime is helpful, but doesn't need the real-time update or crash protection. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/