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

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Message-ID: <20090409194624.GB1403@ucw.cz>
Date:	Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:13:31 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, 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 2/2] Make relatime default

On Thu 2009-03-26 15:27:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > NAK this again
> 
> And I don't care.
> 
> If the distro's had done this right in the year+ that this has been in, I 
> m ight consider your NAK to have some weight.

'No changes of ABI in stable series?' If you tweaked defaults for
ext4, before it was widely used... that would be acceptable I
guess. By breaking old setups with kernel change is bad.

									Pavel 
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