From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [192.26.58.214]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9N2pDqM019585 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:51:14 -0700 From: Niv Sardi Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Re: atime not written to disk References: <48FD74CC.907@sgi.com> <48FD7B69.3090600@wm.jp.nec.com> <20081022081710.GL18495@disturbed> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:52:44 +1100 In-Reply-To: <20081022081710.GL18495@disturbed> (Dave Chinner's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:17:10 +1100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Utako Kusaka Cc: Timothy Shimmin , xfs Dave Chinner writes: [...] > As I mentioned on IRC, Tim, the following patch fixes the above test > case. It will make XFS behave like other filesystems w.r.t. atime, > instead of defaulting to relatime-like behaviour. This will have > performance impact unless ppl now add the relatime mount option. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don't really like it, and don't think there is a real justification to do it. Why not only do: -- Niv Sardi