linux-kernel - Re: relatime: update once per day patches (was: ext3 IO latency measurements)

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Message-ID: <20090326164053.GA6318@co.sapo.pt>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:40:53 +0000
From:	Jose Celestino <japc@...sapo.pt>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, mingo@...e.hu, jack@...e.cz,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@...radead.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, npiggin@...e.de, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	drees76@...il.com, jesper@...gh.cc, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, roland@...hat.com
Subject: Re: relatime: update once per day patches (was: ext3 IO latency
	measurements)

Words by Theodore Tso [Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:30:26PM -0400]:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:14:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I generally agree witht he "leave policy to user space" people, but this 
> > is an area where (a) user space has shown itself to not get it right (ie 
> > people don't do even the existing relatime because distros don't) and (b) 
> > what's the alternative?
> 
> I thought at least some distro's were adding relatime by default; I
> could be wrong, but I thought Ubuntu was doing this.

Yes.

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