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

Linus Torvalds
2009-03-26T17:52:31Z

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Bill Nottingham 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.

Why the hell should I rebuild initramfs?

Anyway, I fixed it. I don't use initramfs any more, after all the idiocies
it has done. I had to make everything primary partitions in order to do
that, but hey, that solved a lot of other problems too, so that was no
loss.

Linus