Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Jeff Garzik
2007-08-05T09:04:27Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Distro makers did not dare to do this sooner because some kernel
> developers came forward with these mostly bogus arguments ... The impact
> of atime is far better understood by the kernel community, so it is the
> responsibility of _us_ to signal such things towards distributors, not
> the other way around.

Pretty much.

AFAICS there was never a "policy decision" on the part of distro makers
to begin with. The kernel had its default -- atime -- and the distros
ran with that.

Jeff