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Message-Id: <20081129125607.55d70063.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:56:07 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
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, 29 Nov 2008 13:38:57 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:
> 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?
Per superblock, of course.
> This is featuritis gone MAD.
No it isn't - it's the expected and standard behaviour. We have all
the kernel infrastructure and userspace tools in place for doing it
this way.
Modifying the behaviour of all filesystems with a single knob is a
weird thing to do.
MNT_RELATIME itself is already per-superblock.
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