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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, val.henson@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] relatime: Make relatime smarter
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:10:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081202111025.GI2956@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081128134055.GQ25548@parisc-linux.org>

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:40:55AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:18:09AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > The time between atime updates can be configured at boot
> > > with the relatime_interval kernel argument, or at runtime through a sysctl.
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be a per-mount value, with defaults coming from the sysctl?
> 
> Perhaps a more sensible question would be "Why make it configurable at

 this is GNOME-mentality :-)

> all?"  What's wrong with hardcoding 24 hours?  Or, to put it another
> way, who wants to change it from 24 hours, and why?

 Why do you think that 24 hours is the right default value? Do you
 have any logical argument for this setting?

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26 19:54 [PATCH 1/2] relatime: Make atime updates more useful Matthew Garrett
2008-11-26 19:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour Matthew Garrett
2008-11-26 21:11   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-11-26 22:39   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-11-27 15:01     ` [PATCH v2 1/2] relatime: Make relatime behaviour smarter Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 15:03       ` [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 15:07         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-27 16:03         ` Karel Zak
     [not found]           ` <20081127160353.GQ2961-sHeGUpI7y9L/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-27 17:30             ` Pádraig Brady
     [not found]               ` <492ED945.5010600-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-27 17:39                 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 16:35         ` Alan Cox
2008-11-27 16:47           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 16:59             ` [PATCH v3] relatime: Make relatime smarter Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 17:06               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-27 17:58                 ` [PATCH v4] " Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 22:08                   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-11-27 22:35                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-11-28 11:13                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-28 13:41                     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-28 11:18                   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-28 13:40                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-11-28 13:47                       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 11:10                       ` Karel Zak [this message]
2008-12-02 16:46                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-11-27 19:15               ` [PATCH v3] " Alan Cox
2008-11-28 11:16                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-28 13:45                   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 17:03         ` [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-29  8:24           ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-29 13:03             ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-11-29 13:57               ` Jörn Engel
2008-11-29 18:56                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-29 19:02                   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-29 20:32                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-29 20:38                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-11-29 20:56                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-29 21:41                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-29 20:55                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-29 21:03                         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-29 21:02                       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 15:06       ` [PATCH v2 1/2] relatime: Make relatime behaviour smarter Ingo Molnar
2008-11-29  8:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] relatime: Make atime updates more useful Andrew Morton
2008-12-02 17:19 ` [PATCH] relatime: Let relatime update atime at least once per day Matthew Garrett
2008-12-13  5:26   ` Valerie Aurora Henson

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