From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20081129190245.GA21502@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20081126195457.GA3541@srcf.ucam.org> <20081126195824.GB3541@srcf.ucam.org> <492DD035.5020705@oracle.com> <20081127150126.GA20941@srcf.ucam.org> <20081127150341.GB20941@srcf.ucam.org> <20081127170345.GA14991@infradead.org> <20081129002419.abfd2504.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081129130308.GX25548@parisc-linux.org> <20081129135742.GC11959@logfs.org> <20081129185645.GA20194@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, val.henson@gmail.com To: Jamie Lokier Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:34574 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751949AbYK2TDR (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:03:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081129185645.GA20194@shareable.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:56:45PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I don't see why there is an objection to per-mountpoint. > Andrew Morton's syntax: mount /dev/foo /mnt/bar -o relatime=86400 > looks natural to me. If somebody feels that this functionality would be useful, they're welcome to write it. 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org