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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8
On Sat, 4 August 2007 14:08:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

If you mean "relatime" I concur. "noatime" hurts mutt and others while
"relatime" has no known problems, afaics.

Jörn

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