linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

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Message-ID: <20070806203710.39bdc42e@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:37:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	J??rn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.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,
	dgc@....com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@...achi.com, nikita@...sterfs.com,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, yingchao.zhou@...il.com,
	richard@....demon.co.uk, david@...g.hm
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

> We already tried that here. The response: "If noatime is so great, why
> isn't it the default in the kernel?"

Ok so we have a pile of people @redhat.com sitting on linux-kernel
complaining about Red Hat distributions not taking it up. Guys - can
we just fix it internally please like sensible folk ?

Ingo's latest 'not quite noatime' seems to cure mutt/tmpwatch so it might
finally make sense to do so.

Alan
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