Re: [PATCH v4] relatime: Make relatime smarter

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:18:09AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The time between atime updates can be configured at boot
> > with the relatime_interval kernel argument, or at runtime through a sysctl.
> 
> Shouldn't it be a per-mount value, with defaults coming from the sysctl?

Perhaps a more sensible question would be "Why make it configurable at
all?"  What's wrong with hardcoding 24 hours?  Or, to put it another
way, who wants to change it from 24 hours, and why?

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