Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761915AbZCZU77 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:59:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756737AbZCZU7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:59:50 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56229 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756520AbZCZU7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:59:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:58:41 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , Jens Axboe , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29) Message-ID: <20090326205841.16e1bab3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090326205534.GA11217@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090326090630.GA9369@elte.hu> <20090326113705.GV32307@mit.edu> <20090326140312.GB14822@elte.hu> <20090326144707.GA6239@mit.edu> <20090326170714.GF6239@mit.edu> <20090326185900.166a1097@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090326200258.GA10313@srcf.ucam.org> <20090326204209.1da6e791@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090326205534.GA11217@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: 612 Lines: 11 > I agree, but arguing for something on the basis of a spec isn't terribly > convincing if the spec allows effectively identical behaviour. SuS isn't > a relevant consideration when it comes to deciding default atime policy. I'd says its or minor relevance. The default expected behaviour we had last week is however of major relevance and that is my big concern. -- 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/