Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] relatime: Allow making relatime the default behaviour

[Matthew Wilcox]

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?  This is featuritis gone MAD.

I'll take my bikeshed in teal, stippled with cornsilk.

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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