From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:08:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <20070804063217.GA25069@elte.hu> <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , 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: Linus Torvalds wrote: > The "relatime" thing that David mentioned might well be very useful, but > it's probably even less used than "noatime" is. And sadly, I don't really > see that changing (unless we were to actually change the defaults inside > the kernel). I actually vote for that. IMO, distros should turn -on- atime updates when they know its needed. Jeff -- 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