From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 22:47:06 +0100 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 Message-ID: <20070804224706.617500a0@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <46B4E161.9080100@garzik.org> References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <20070804063217.GA25069@elte.hu> <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> <20070804192130.GA25346@elte.hu> <20070804211156.5f600d80@the-village.bc.nu> <46B4E161.9080100@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Ingo Molnar , =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, david@lang.hm List-ID: > Linux has always been a "POSIX unless its stupid" type of system. For > the upstream kernel, we should do the right thing -- noatime by default > -- but allow distros and people that care about rigid compliance to > easily change the default. Linux has never been a "suprise your kernel interfaces all just changed today" kernel, nor a "gosh you upgraded and didn't notice your backups broke" kernel. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org