Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

Alan Cox
2009-03-26T18:55:42Z

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:38 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:

> Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) said:
> > And quite frankly, even if you then _manually_ put 'relatime' in
> > /etc/fstab, the default Fedora install will totally ignore it. Why?
> > Because it mounts the root partition while using initrd, and totally
> > ignores /etc/fstab.
>
> It should honor /etc/fstab changes, if the initramfs is rebuilt
> after the change is made. If it doesn't, that's a bug.

Surely it should also look at the real /etc/fstab after mounting root r/o
and then flip the options needed so you don't have to.