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

Bill Nottingham
2009-03-26T17:35:43Z

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.

Bill