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

Helge Hafting
2007-08-14T10:01:50Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Umm, no f**king way. atime selection is 100% policy and belongs into
> userspace. Add to that the problem that we can't actually re-enable
> atimes because of the way the vfs-level mount flags API is designed.
> Instead of doing such a fugly kernel patch just talk to the handfull
> of distributions that matter to update their defaults.
>

Indeed. Just change /bin/mount so it defaults to "noatime"
unless there is an explicit "atime". Similiar for diratime.
Problem solved.

Helge Hafting