From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] vfs: don't let the dirty time inodes get more than a day stale Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:53:32 +1100 Message-ID: <20141125015332.GE27262@dastard> References: <1416599964-21892-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1416599964-21892-4-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Ext4 Developers List , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:13164 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751791AbaKYBxe (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:53:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1416599964-21892-4-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Guarantee that the on-disk timestamps will be no more than 24 hours > stale. > > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o If we put these inodes on the dirty inode list with at writeback time of 24 hours, this is completely unnecessary. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com