From 0a1c01c9477602ee8b44548a9405b2c1d587b5a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:53:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make relatime default Change the default behaviour of the kernel to use relatime for all filesystems. This can be overridden with the "strictatime" mount option. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namespace.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index d0659ec291c9..f0e753097353 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1920,6 +1920,9 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page, if (data_page) ((char *)data_page)[PAGE_SIZE - 1] = 0; + /* Default to relatime */ + mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME; + /* Separate the per-mountpoint flags */ if (flags & MS_NOSUID) mnt_flags |= MNT_NOSUID; @@ -1931,8 +1934,6 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page, mnt_flags |= MNT_NOATIME; if (flags & MS_NODIRATIME) mnt_flags |= MNT_NODIRATIME; - if (flags & MS_RELATIME) - mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME; if (flags & MS_STRICTATIME) mnt_flags &= ~(MNT_RELATIME | MNT_NOATIME); if (flags & MS_RDONLY)