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

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

 > P.S.  Yet alternative is to specify noatime on an individual
 > file/directory basis.  We've had this capability for a *long* time,
 > and if a distro were to set noatime for all files in certain
 > hierarchies (i.e., /usr/include) and certain top-level directories
 > (since the chattr +A flag is inherited)

This came across my mind again earlier, and I went digging.
Can you explain how this works?

I've eyeballed the ext2/ext3 code, and feel like I'm missing something obvious.
I'm guessing that for eg, with /usr/include/stdio.h, we check the inodes
for all four parts of path, and if any of them are +A we avoid the
atime update ?  If so, where does that inheritance happen in the code?

	Dave

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