From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4QNGNjY099247 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 18:16:23 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 911643799AB for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 16:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail16.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.101]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id LeOJMuxpNetZgDwQ for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 16:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:18:42 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: noatime,nodiratime? Message-ID: <20100526231842.GC1395@dastard> References: <4BF3F212.5030600@hardwarefreak.com> <20100519182336.GA6264@infradead.org> <4BF43B3C.6030403@hardwarefreak.com> <4BF44105.4040902@sandeen.net> <4BF47859.6020808@hardwarefreak.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BF47859.6020808@hardwarefreak.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Stan Hoeppner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:46:33PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Eric Sandeen put forth on 5/19/2010 2:50 PM: > > > xfs_info actually calls xfs_growfs -n, and it's only reporting on-disk > > geometry. I kind of doubt that'll change. If you want to see mount > > options, /proc/mounts is the place ... but then we don't show the > > defaults ;) I wonder if we should change that and be explicit about > > every option in /proc/mounts *shrug* > > IMHO the option values should be listed, whether they are the defaults or > user defined. XFS may be breaking convention by doing so, as it appears > EXT2 (and probably 3/4, and other filesystems) behave the same as XFS > currently does--no display of default settings, except rw. > > > It's so hard to keep google up to date ;) > > Add the information to the FAQ and it'll show up in Google indexes in short > order, assuming you allow robots to crawl xfs.org, which IIRC, you do. > > > /proc/mounts shows all mount options which were set differently from > > defaults. > > Yes. It would be nice to see the settings regardless of default or user > defined. In the absence of, or in addition to this, could we get a > consistent (default) for each setting in XFS man mount? For example, > barrier is listed but we're not told if it's the default. nobarrier isn't > even in the man page, but it's on the wiki FAQ. The wiki FAQ tells us that > barrier is the default. I'm referring to the man page that comes with > Debian 5.0. The current man page may be updated to reflect some of these > things, though I've not read it yet. > > Sorry if I seem nit-picky. I've spent many hours trying to hunt down some > of this information and it's been a frustrating process. XFS rocks. > Currently, from here, the docs don't rock yet. :( Patches to fix up the docs will be gratefully accepted. :) Patches to change the output of /proc/mounts might take a little more discussion.... Note that the man pages for mount are in the util-linux package, not anything XFS... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs