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

[Helge Hafting]

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.
>   

Indeed.  Just change /bin/mount so it defaults to "noatime"
unless there is an explicit "atime". Similiar for diratime.
Problem solved.

Helge Hafting
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