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

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 08/05/2007 04:36 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> Umm, no f**king way.  atime selection is 100% policy and belongs into
> userspace.  Add to that the problem that we can't actually re-enable
> atimes because of the way the vfs-level mount flags API is designed.
> Instead of doing such a fugly kernel patch just talk to the handfull
> of distributions that matter to update their defaults.
> 

We already tried that here. The response: "If noatime is so great, why
isn't it the default in the kernel?"
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