On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:52:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I actually wonder if it is worth carrying around the O_NOATIME hack at > > all. > > Yes, I share the thought. We no longer have too many loose objects > to matter. > > I do not mind flipping the order, but I'd prefer to cook the result > even longer. I am tempted to suggest we take two step route: > > - ship 2.11 with the "atime has been there and we won't regress it" > shape, while cooking the "cloexec is semantically more > important" version in 'next' during the feature freeze > > - immediately after 2.11 merge it to 'master' for 2.12 to make sure > there is no fallout. That sounds reasonable, though I'd consider jumping straight to "NOATIME is not worth it; drop it" as the patch for post-2.11. -Peff