On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:13:19AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:06 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Your particular use case can be handled by directing your benchmark > > at a filesystem mount point and unmounting the filesystem in between > > benchmark runs. There is no ned to adding kernel functionality for > > somethign that can be so easily acheived by other means, especially > > in benchmark environments where *everything* is tightly controlled. > > If I was a benchmark writer, I would not be willing running it as root > to be able to mount/unmount, I would not be willing to require the > customer creating special dedicated partitions for the benchmark, > because this is too user-unfriendly. Or do I make incorrect assumptions?
Just add the dev/mntpt to /etc/fstab and add "user" to the configuration and the need for root goes away. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
