Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:02:04 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour |
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote: > > A global default doesn't preclude per-mountpoint > > settings. This patch makes the existing kernel code more useful and so > > is worthwhile on its own, even if it doesn't scratch everyone's itch. > > The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour > is via mount options. This is also quite flexible.
Yes, if something is configured at a per-filesystem level, a mount option makes sense. I don't personally see any terribly sensible use cases for having this be per-filesystem and so wasn't planning on implementing that.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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