Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765426AbXHDSJL (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:09:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764855AbXHDSI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:08:58 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46515 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755967AbXHDSI5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:08:57 -0400 Message-ID: <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:08:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <20070804063217.GA25069@elte.hu> <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds wrote: > The "relatime" thing that David mentioned might well be very useful, but > it's probably even less used than "noatime" is. And sadly, I don't really > see that changing (unless we were to actually change the defaults inside > the kernel). I actually vote for that. IMO, distros should turn -on- atime updates when they know its needed. Jeff - 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/