From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: relatime in /etc/fstab on FC8
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:12:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304011236.789dba26.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204620610.2439.10.camel@entropy>
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:50:10 +0000 Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
OIC. Thanks. That's pretty obnoxious. It'd be saner to put a copy of mount(8)
into the initrd?
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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
2008-03-04 9:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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