Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933257AbXHDTuW (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:50:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762892AbXHDTuL (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:50:11 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:54493 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762597AbXHDTuJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:50:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:47:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: =?iso-8859-15?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= cc: Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , 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 In-Reply-To: <20070804192615.GA25600@lazybastard.org> Message-ID: References: <20070804063217.GA25069@elte.hu> <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> <20070804192130.GA25346@elte.hu> <20070804192615.GA25600@lazybastard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 19 On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, J?rn Engel wrote: > > Given the choice between only "atime" and "noatime" I'd agree with you. > Heck, I use it myself. But "relatime" seems to combine the best of both > worlds. It currently just suffers from mount not supporting it in any > relevant distro. Well, we could make it the default for the kernel (possibly under a "fast-atime" config option), and then people can add "atime" or "noatime" as they wish, since mount has supported _those_ options for a long time. Linus - 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/