Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933430AbXHDTv0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:51:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765360AbXHDTvT (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:51:19 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55840 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762892AbXHDTvS (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:51:18 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:49:05 -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: 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=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 20 On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. Side note: while I think the fsync() behaviour is more irritating than atime, that one is harder to fix. I think it's reasonable to have "relatime" as a default strategy for the kernel, but I don't think it's necessarily at all as reasonable to change a filesystem-specific ordering constraint. 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/