On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:38:57 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour > > is via mount options. This is also quite flexible. > > > > Is there some extraordinary reason why the standard interface is not to > > be used here? > > Because it would have to be managed (and consulted) per ... what? > vfsmount? superblock? Per superblock, of course. > This is featuritis gone MAD. No it isn't - it's the expected and standard behaviour. We have all the kernel infrastructure and userspace tools in place for doing it this way. Modifying the behaviour of all filesystems with a single knob is a weird thing to do. MNT_RELATIME itself is already per-superblock. -- 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
