[PATCH] ubifs: Introduce a mount option of force_atime.

Dongsheng Yang yangds.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com
Mon Jun 8 02:55:11 PDT 2015


On 06/08/2015 05:33 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 16:27 +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
>> Currently, ubifs does not support access time anyway. I understand
>> that there is a overhead to update inode in each access from user.
>>
>> But for the following two reasons, I think we can make it optional
>> to user.
>>
>> (1). More and more flash storage in server are trying to use ubifs,
>> it is not only for a device such as mobile phone any more, we want
>> to use it in more and more generic way. Then we need to compete
>> with some other main filesystems. From this point, access time is
>> necessary to us, at least as a choice to user currently.
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you please re-send this patch with the following list in CC:
>
> linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org

Okey, thanx
>
> This patch will probably need VFS-scope discussion, this is why I am
> asking to CC the general linux file-systems development mailing list.
>

> Thanks!
>
> .
>




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