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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8


On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Well, we could make it the default for the kernel (possibly under a
> "fast-atime" config option), and then people can add "atime" or "noatime"
> as they wish, since mount has supported _those_ options for a long time.

Side note: while I think the fsync() behaviour is more irritating than
atime, that one is harder to fix. I think it's reasonable to have
"relatime" as a default strategy for the kernel, but I don't think it's
necessarily at all as reasonable to change a filesystem-specific ordering
constraint.

Linus
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