Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759811AbZCZQrt (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756945AbZCZQrk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:40 -0400 Received: from mail.sl.pt ([212.55.140.13]:49513 "EHLO sl.pt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752505AbZCZQrj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 397 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:38 EDT Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:40:53 +0000 From: Jose Celestino To: Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Frans Pop , mingo@elte.hu, jack@suse.cz, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, npiggin@suse.de, jens.axboe@oracle.com, drees76@gmail.com, jesper@krogh.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, roland@redhat.com Subject: Re: relatime: update once per day patches (was: ext3 IO latency measurements) Message-ID: <20090326164053.GA6318@co.sapo.pt> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Frans Pop , mingo@elte.hu, jack@suse.cz, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, npiggin@suse.de, jens.axboe@oracle.com, drees76@gmail.com, jesper@krogh.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, roland@redhat.com References: <20090325235041.GA11024@duck.suse.cz> <20090326090630.GA9369@elte.hu> <20090326113705.GV32307@mit.edu> <20090326140312.GB14822@elte.hu> <20090326140312.GB14822@elte.hu> <20090326073013.2fa83178.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200903261632.42439.elendil@planet.nl> <20090326084733.156c4910.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326163026.GD6239@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT In-Reply-To: <20090326163026.GD6239@mit.edu> X-URL: http://xpto.org/~japc X-System: Linux morgoth 2.6.28-9-generic X-UP: 16:26:59 up 1 day, 14:55, 2 users, load average: 2.45, 1.79, 1.28 X-By: japc@morgoth X-GPG-key-ID: 0x07B1363B X-GPG-key-Fingerprint: D3F3 B47B F20C 3B1E 488C B949 1B8B 8141 07B1 363B User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 21 Words by Theodore Tso [Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:30:26PM -0400]: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:14:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I generally agree witht he "leave policy to user space" people, but this > > is an area where (a) user space has shown itself to not get it right (ie > > people don't do even the existing relatime because distros don't) and (b) > > what's the alternative? > > I thought at least some distro's were adding relatime by default; I > could be wrong, but I thought Ubuntu was doing this. Yes. -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- 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/