Re: [patch] implement smarter atime updates support, v2

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 01:36:59 EST



* Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:28:38PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > added the relatime_interval sysctl that allows the changing of the
> > atime update frequency. (default: 1 day / 86400 seconds)
>
> What if you specify the interval as a per-mount option? i.e.,
>
> mount -o relatime=86400 /dev/sda2 /u1
>
> If you had this, I don't think we would need the sysctl tuning
> parameter.

it's much more flexible if there are _more_ options available. People
can thus make use of the feature earlier, use it even on distros that
dont support it yet, etc.

Ingo
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