Re: relatime: update once per day patches (was: ext3 IO latency measurements)

Jose Celestino
2009-03-26T16:47:49Z

Words by Theodore Tso [Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:30:26PM -0400]:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:14:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I generally agree witht he "leave policy to user space" people, but this
> > is an area where (a) user space has shown itself to not get it right (ie
> > people don't do even the existing relatime because distros don't) and (b)
> > what's the alternative?
>
> I thought at least some distro's were adding relatime by default; I
> could be wrong, but I thought Ubuntu was doing this.

Yes.

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