Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760626AbZCZS4j (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:56:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755995AbZCZS4a (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:56:30 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:40838 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755424AbZCZS43 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:56:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:55:22 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Frans Pop , mingo@elte.hu, tytso@mit.edu, jack@suse.cz, 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, willy@linux.intel.com, vaurora@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow relatime to update atime once a day Message-ID: <20090326185522.42995ca3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090326173214.GA7198@srcf.ucam.org> 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> <20090326173214.GA7198@srcf.ucam.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 15 On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:14 +0000 Matthew Garrett wrote: > Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime. This lets > utilities like tmpreaper (which delete files based on last access time) > continue working, making relatime a plausible default for distributions. And while I think forcing relatime on is a really dumb dangerous idea, providing it so you can enable it (or distro new releases can for new installs etc) is a *very good* one -- 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/