linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/4] vfs: don't let the dirty time inodes get more than a day stale

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Message-ID: <20141125015332.GE27262@dastard>
Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:53:32 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] vfs: don't let the dirty time inodes get more than a
 day stale

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Guarantee that the on-disk timestamps will be no more than 24 hours
> stale.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

If we put these inodes on the dirty inode list with at writeback
time of 24 hours, this is completely unnecessary.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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