Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:55:29 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
       =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>,
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       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
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:32:20 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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?


let me ask this:
Has anmyone ever had the desire to change the default of 1 day of
relatime? Ever?
Maybe this code isn't really needed if nobody even thought about
changing it.

Clearly there are two extremes (always and never) for which we have
atime/noatime. I'm not sure we need to have any smarts in the middle
point for the user to change. If this is something people wish to see
tuned better, I would rather spend the code size in trying to get it
autotuning.

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