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

Alan Cox
2007-08-06T19:32:07Z

> We already tried that here. The response: "If noatime is so great, why
> isn't it the default in the kernel?"

Ok so we have a pile of people @redhat.com sitting on linux-kernel
complaining about Red Hat distributions not taking it up. Guys - can
we just fix it internally please like sensible folk ?

Ingo's latest 'not quite noatime' seems to cure mutt/tmpwatch so it might
finally make sense to do so.

Alan