Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764915AbXHFTcH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:32:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761512AbXHFTbc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:31:32 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:35899 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761018AbXHFTb0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:31:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:37:10 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Christoph Hellwig , J??rn Engel , Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , 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: <20070806203710.39bdc42e@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <46B7626C.6050403@redhat.com> References: <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> <20070804194259.GA25753@lazybastard.org> <20070805203602.GB25107@infradead.org> <46B7626C.6050403@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 16 > We already tried that here. The response: "If noatime is so great, why > isn't it the default in the kernel?" Ok so we have a pile of people @redhat.com sitting on linux-kernel complaining about Red Hat distributions not taking it up. Guys - can we just fix it internally please like sensible folk ? Ingo's latest 'not quite noatime' seems to cure mutt/tmpwatch so it might finally make sense to do so. Alan - 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/