[PATCH-v5 1/5] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> One thing that comes to mind is touch/utimes()/utimensat().  Those
> should definitely not result in timestamps being kept only in memory
> for 24h, since the whole point of those calls is to update the times.
> It makes sense for these APIs to dirty the inode for proper writeout.

Not a problem.  Touch/utimes* go through notify_change() and
->setattr, so they won't go through the I_DIRTY_TIME code path.

	      	   	    	    	- Ted