linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add a strictatime mount option

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Message-ID: <20090326185243.5bf44458@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:52:43 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add a strictatime mount option

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:49:56 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> wrote:

> Add support for explicitly requesting full atime updates. This makes it
> possible for kernels to default to relatime but still allow userspace to
> override it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>

NAK this is unneccessary complication from a broken ABI change that isn't
safe to make anyway.

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