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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:56:45PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I don't see why there is an objection to per-mountpoint.
> Andrew Morton's syntax: mount /dev/foo /mnt/bar -o relatime=86400
> looks natural to me.

If somebody feels that this functionality would be useful, they're 
welcome to write it. A global default doesn't preclude per-mountpoint 
settings. This patch makes the existing kernel code more useful and so 
is worthwhile on its own, even if it doesn't scratch everyone's itch.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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