Re: tune2fs and setting noatime as a default mount options

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

On 8/28/14, 5:12 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I'd like to set noatime as a default mount option for a filesystem:
> 
> # tune2fs -o noatime /dev/sdb1
> tune2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
> Invalid mount option set: noatime

Right, the manpage doesn't list that as supported under "-o".

> Is there a reason why noatime can't be set as a default mount option? Thinking of all these USB connected devices where it would be handy.

I haven't looked, but I'm guessing it's because noatime is a vfs-level switch, and by the time the ext4 superblock is getting read and processed during mount, that chance has passed.

Just to keep things complicated and confusing ;) there's a different mechanism to do this as well:

# tune2fs -E mount_opts=noatime /dev/sdc1

which succeeds; however, this fails to be parsed at mount time:

[  118.384020] EXT4-fs (sdc1): failed to parse options in superblock: noatime

for the same reasons, I guess.  The documentation could certainly be better...

-Eric