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

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

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
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