linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] Make relatime default

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Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:53:14 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Make relatime default

Change the default behaviour of the kernel to use relatime for all
filesystems. This can be overridden with the "strictatime" mount
option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index d0659ec..f0e7530 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1920,6 +1920,9 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page,
 	if (data_page)
 		((char *)data_page)[PAGE_SIZE - 1] = 0;
 
+	/* Default to relatime */
+	mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
+
 	/* Separate the per-mountpoint flags */
 	if (flags & MS_NOSUID)
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_NOSUID;
@@ -1931,8 +1934,6 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page,
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_NOATIME;
 	if (flags & MS_NODIRATIME)
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_NODIRATIME;
-	if (flags & MS_RELATIME)
-		mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
 	if (flags & MS_STRICTATIME)
 		mnt_flags &= ~(MNT_RELATIME | MNT_NOATIME);
 	if (flags & MS_RDONLY)

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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