On Sat, 29 November 2008 06:03:08 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > That would imply that relatime could be different per-mountpoint. > > I favour not making it configurable at all. I guess some amount if configuration may be necessary. If you go back to the beginning of the thread... On Wed, 26 November 2008 19:54:57 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime enabled. This > lets utilities like tmpreaper (which deletes files based on last access > time) continue working. ...and check the tmpreaper manpage, you will notice that tmpreaper can be configured as well. So relatime has a default timeout of T and tmpreaper is configured to delete files after 1/2 T (never mind what T might be), the system breaks. Guessing a value of T that is good enough for everyone is a complicated business, so one configurable makes sense imo. One per mountpoint is rather silly, of course. Jörn -- Mundie uses a textbook tactic of manipulation: start with some reasonable talk, and lead the audience to an unreasonable conclusion. -- Bruce Perens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
