On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> said: >> One of the configuration changes made when installing Linux on Flash >> media seems to be to turn on the 'reltime' mount option in fstab. >> Should we perhaps turn this by default, if there are no downside to >> this? > > Do you mean 'relatime'? I don't see 'reltime' in the mount(8) man page. > > If you mean 'relatime', I think that has been the default since (at > least) Fedora 8 for ext3 filesystems; it is set in the kernel. You have > to add 'atime' to the mount options to turn it off. > Oops, yes. Incidentally, the manpage mispells it as 'realatime' in the norelatime section; time to file a bug. No mention that relatime is the default either -- does this belong in the manpage or in the release notes? Just noticed the Fedora Mini SIG; the wiki should probably have a page discussing configuration options, in case anyone else incorrectly assumes (as I did) that the default is still 'atime'. Thanks, -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora • salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MacPorts • hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
