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

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 15:48:28 EST


On 08/06/2007 03:37 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> We already tried that here. The response: "If noatime is so great, why
>> isn't it the default in the kernel?"
>
> Ok so we have a pile of people @redhat.com sitting on linux-kernel
> complaining about Red Hat distributions not taking it up. Guys - can
> we just fix it internally please like sensible folk ?
>
> Ingo's latest 'not quite noatime' seems to cure mutt/tmpwatch so it might
> finally make sense to do so.

Do we report max(ctime, mtime) as the atime by default when noatime
is set or do we still need that to be done?

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