Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:54:24 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29) |
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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.
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