Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932809AbXHDTQU (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:16:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765162AbXHDTQN (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:16:13 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:43821 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765049AbXHDTQM (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:16:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:12:06 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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 Message-ID: <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <20070804063217.GA25069@elte.hu> <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 23 On Sat, 4 August 2007 14:08:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. If you mean "relatime" I concur. "noatime" hurts mutt and others while "relatime" has no known problems, afaics. Jörn -- Joern's library part 5: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part2/section-9.html - 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/