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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: relatime in /etc/fstab on FC8
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:50:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204620610.2439.10.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080303205452.8864c46d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 20:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm all confused.  When I change my fc8 machine's fstab to
> 
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    relatime      1 1
> 
> the machine won't boot - ext3 claims to not recognise the mount option. 
> But putting "commit=100" in there works OK, as does running `mount
> -oremount,relatime' after it has booted.  relatime is a vfs option, not a
> fs option, but should that matter?
> 
> It'll be due to me running `/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd', which takes
> things out of /etc/fstab and stuffs them into initrd.
> 
> I fell I'm missing something obvious here.  Help?

The nash mount builtin doesn't understand the relatime mount option and
consequently can't pass the MS_RELATIME flag to mount(2).

Fedora kernels are patched to mount every filesystem with norelatime.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04  4:54 relatime in /etc/fstab on FC8 Andrew Morton
2008-03-04  8:50 ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2008-03-04  9:12   ` Andrew Morton

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