Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:38:57 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
       J?rn Engel <joern@logfs.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, val.henson@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour
> is via mount options.  This is also quite flexible.
> 
> Is there some extraordinary reason why the standard interface is not to
> be used here?

Because it would have to be managed (and consulted) per ... what?
vfsmount?  superblock?  This is featuritis gone MAD.

I'll take my bikeshed in teal, stippled with cornsilk.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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