[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 22/30] ocfs2: Handle missing macro MNT_RELATIME

Mark Fasheh mark.fasheh at oracle.com
Tue Jan 8 16:02:32 PST 2008


On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:19:58AM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Commit 47ae32d6a54955a041cdc30b06d0bb16e75f68d5 in mainline introduced
> macro MNT_RELATIME to limit atime updates to frequency specified in the
> mount option. This patch allows one to build ocfs2 with kernels having/not
> having this change.
> 
> It should be noted that the functionality will not be available on kernels
> not having the macro as the vfs support will be missing.

I bet we can conditionally define our own relatime option in here though -
Ocfs2 doesn't really make use of most of the vfs support, so it's not
necessary.

By the way, relatime is the default on the latest fedora releases, so people
_do_ want this feature.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
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