Re: [PATCH v4] relatime: Make relatime smarter

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:40:55AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:18:09AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > The time between atime updates can be configured at boot
> > > with the relatime_interval kernel argument, or at runtime through a sysctl.
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be a per-mount value, with defaults coming from the sysctl?
> 
> Perhaps a more sensible question would be "Why make it configurable at
> all?"  What's wrong with hardcoding 24 hours?  Or, to put it another
> way, who wants to change it from 24 hours, and why?

There's approximately no cost to it, and arguably use cases that would 
benefit. I don't think they'd be common enough to benefit from the 
additional complexity of making it per-mount.

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