PCFS mount options "noatime"/"atime" [PSARC/2007/415 FastTrack timeout

[James Carlson]

Joerg Schilling writes:
> Jürgen Keil <jk at tools.de> wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be possible to optimize out writing back the FAT
> > FS metadata in the "atime" case, when we detect that the
> > day-granular access timestamp hasn't changed?
> 
> This would be possible with a rewrite, but it seems that the people
> who decide on that are not interested in a rewrite.

The "people who decide on that" are in fact the contributors on
opensolaris.org.  If you want to change it, then do so.  Don't
complain about what others may or may not find worthwhile to do with
their time -- it's not just misleading, but it's actually
counter-productive.  It makes it sound as though there's some central
authority blocking progress on pcfs, and that's not the case.

OpenSolaris is still rather new, as open projects go.  It's
disappointing to see prominent contributors already trying to tear it
down by inventing conspiracies that don't exist.

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