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

[Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>]

On Sat, 4 August 2007 14:08:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >The "relatime" thing that David mentioned might well be very useful, but 
> >it's probably even less used than "noatime" is. And sadly, I don't really 
> >see that changing (unless we were to actually change the defaults inside 
> >the kernel).
> 
> I actually vote for that.  IMO, distros should turn -on- atime updates 
> when they know its needed.

If you mean "relatime" I concur.  "noatime" hurts mutt and others while
"relatime" has no known problems, afaics.

Jörn

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