From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46B7626C.6050403@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:03:24 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> <20070804192130.GA25346@elte.hu> <20070804192615.GA25600@lazybastard.org> <20070804194259.GA25753@lazybastard.org> <20070805203602.GB25107@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070805203602.GB25107@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig , J??rn Engel , Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , 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: On 08/05/2007 04:36 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Umm, no f**king way. atime selection is 100% policy and belongs into > userspace. Add to that the problem that we can't actually re-enable > atimes because of the way the vfs-level mount flags API is designed. > Instead of doing such a fugly kernel patch just talk to the handfull > of distributions that matter to update their defaults. > We already tried that here. The response: "If noatime is so great, why isn't it the default in the 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