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Message-ID: <20081129203856.GY25548@parisc-linux.org> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:38:57 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>, J?rn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, val.henson@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour > is via mount options. This is also quite flexible. > > Is there some extraordinary reason why the standard interface is not to > be used here? Because it would have to be managed (and consulted) per ... what? vfsmount? superblock? This is featuritis gone MAD. I'll take my bikeshed in teal, stippled with cornsilk. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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