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Message-ID: <20070805071801.GD515@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:18:01 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, neilb@...e.de,
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richard@....demon.co.uk, david@...g.hm
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8
* Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Linux has always been a "POSIX unless its stupid" type of system.
> > For the upstream kernel, we should do the right thing -- noatime by
> > default -- but allow distros and people that care about rigid
> > compliance to easily change the default.
>
> Linux has never been a "suprise your kernel interfaces all just
> changed today" kernel, nor a "gosh you upgraded and didn't notice your
> backups broke" kernel.
HSM uses atime as a _hint_. The only even remotely valid argument is
Mutt, and even that one could easily be fixed _it is not even installed
by default on most distros_ and nobody but me uses it ;) [and i've been
using Mutt on noatime filesystems for years] So basically a single type
of package and use-case (against tens of thousands of packages) held all
of Linux desktop IO performance hostage for 10 years, to the tune of a
20-30-50-100% performance degradation (depending on the workload)? Wow.
And the atime situation is _so_ obvious, what will we do in the much
less obvious cases?
Ingo
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