On 10/08/07, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After reading the article on kernel list, I tried out noatime on root > partition. I also added 'data=writeback'. Guess what? Unbootable system. > > I had assumed (wrongly) that mount was smart enough that for something so > critical as mounting / it would just ignore a bad option. Wrong. > > IMO, this should REALLY be fixed. No, mount reasonably assumes that if a user is fiddling about with mount options for the root file system then user can resolve an unbootable system because option is bad. Chris -- http://www.chruz.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
