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

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 02:33:05 PDT 2015


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

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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