On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:26:44PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > I switched back to ext4 yesterday, because my btrfs fs got corrupted. > However mounting with lazytime doesn't work, neither specifying it in > /etc/fstab nor a manual remount. It looks like the option is simply > ignored. > > Strace shows, e.g.: > > # mount -o lazytime /boot > mount("/dev/sdc2", "/boot", "ext4", MS_LAZYTIME, NULL) = 0 > EXT4-fs (sdc2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) > /dev/sdc2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) > > # mount -o remount,lazytime /var > mount("/dev/sdb2", "/var", 0x12c4460, MS_REMOUNT|MS_NOATIME|MS_LAZYTIME, NULL) = 0 > EXT4-fs (sdb2): re-mounted. Opts: (null) > /dev/sdb2 on /var type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) > > When I set "sb->s_flags |= MS_LAZYTIME;" unconditionally in > fs/ext4/super.c:5057 (just deleting the if statement), then lazytime > gets used when I remount. > > I'm running the latest git tree (4.14.0-rc1). Hi, I can't really see the problem on my system (4.14.0-rc1) # mount -o lazytime /dev/vdb /mnt/test # mount | grep vdb /dev/vdb on /mnt/test type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime,seclabel,data=ordered) Log says: EXT4-fs (vdb): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: lazytime or even via remount # mount /dev/vdb /mnt/test # mount | grep vdb /dev/vdb on /mnt/test type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) # mount -o remount,lazytime /mnt/test # mount | grep vdb /dev/vdb on /mnt/test type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime,seclabel,data=ordered) Log says: EXT4-fs (vdb): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered,lazytime This is probably because I have older version of util-linux that did now knew about MS_LAZYTIME so it passed "lazytime" option down to the filesystem. So we're definitelly missing something in kernel for this to work properly. Indeed with newer version of util-linux, specifically the one containing commit v2.26-169-g8c7f073 I can reproduce. Thanks! -Lukas > > -- > Markus