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 21:02:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20081129210204.GA22998@srcf.ucam.org> References: <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> <20081129190245.GA21502@srcf.ucam.org> <20081129123220.67fd1e6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jamie Lokier , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Matthew Wilcox , Christoph Hellwig , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, val.henson@gmail.com To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:45353 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752482AbYK2VCT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:02:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081129123220.67fd1e6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0000 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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. > > The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour > is via mount options. This is also quite flexible. Yes, if something is configured at a per-filesystem level, a mount option makes sense. I don't personally see any terribly sensible use cases for having this be per-filesystem and so wasn't planning on implementing that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org