Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:49:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.
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