Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757832AbXHNKBu (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:01:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757029AbXHNKAR (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:00:17 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:36249 "EHLO embla.aitel.hist.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756738AbXHNKAP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:00:15 -0400 Message-ID: <46C17C8F.1040806@aitel.hist.no> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:57:35 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 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 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> In-Reply-To: <20070805203602.GB25107@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 18 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Umm, no f**king way. atime selection is 100% policy and belongs into > userspace. Add to that the problem that we can't actually re-enable > atimes because of the way the vfs-level mount flags API is designed. > Instead of doing such a fugly kernel patch just talk to the handfull > of distributions that matter to update their defaults. > Indeed. Just change /bin/mount so it defaults to "noatime" unless there is an explicit "atime". Similiar for diratime. Problem solved. Helge Hafting - 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/