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

Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04T19:50:22Z

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:
>
> Given the choice between only "atime" and "noatime" I'd agree with you.
> Heck, I use it myself. But "relatime" seems to combine the best of both
> worlds. It currently just suffers from mount not supporting it in any
> relevant distro.

Well, we could make it the default for the kernel (possibly under a
"fast-atime" config option), and then people can add "atime" or "noatime"
as they wish, since mount has supported _those_ options for a long time.

Linus