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

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:57:35 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	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

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.
>   

Indeed.  Just change /bin/mount so it defaults to "noatime"
unless there is an explicit "atime". Similiar for diratime.
Problem solved.

Helge Hafting
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