Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:53:23 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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Chuck Ebbert wrote: > 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?"
Yes, and around and around we go :/
Jeff
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