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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:02:04 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>, Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, 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: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> wrote: > > A global default doesn't preclude per-mountpoint > > settings. This patch makes the existing kernel code more useful and so > > is worthwhile on its own, even if it doesn't scratch everyone's itch. > > The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour > is via mount options. This is also quite flexible. Yes, if something is configured at a per-filesystem level, a mount option makes sense. I don't personally see any terribly sensible use cases for having this be per-filesystem and so wasn't planning on implementing that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- 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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