Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29) |
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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
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