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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:31:53 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc: yangsheng <sickamd@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
swhiteho@...hat.com, sickadm@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Update atime from future.
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:13:37 MST, Andreas Dilger said:
> On 2011-01-04, at 11:21, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:56:58 +0800, yangsheng said:
> >> If atime has been wrong set to future, then it cannot
> >> be updated back to current time.
> >>
> >> +#define RELATIME_MARGIN (24 * 60 * 60)
> >
> > Nice patch overall. Should this be a #define, or a CONFIG_ variable,
> > or a tweakable /proc/sys/fs variable? Or am I senile and we thrashed
> > all this out once before when the relatime code landed?
>
> I recall the consensus was that a /proc tunable was "too much" for the
> initial patch.
OK, in that case yangsheng's patch is probably good to go.
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