On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 20:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'm all confused. When I change my fc8 machine's fstab to > > LABEL=/ / ext3 relatime 1 1 > > the machine won't boot - ext3 claims to not recognise the mount option. > But putting "commit=100" in there works OK, as does running `mount > -oremount,relatime' after it has booted. relatime is a vfs option, not a > fs option, but should that matter? > > It'll be due to me running `/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd', which takes > things out of /etc/fstab and stuffs them into initrd. > > I fell I'm missing something obvious here. Help? The nash mount builtin doesn't understand the relatime mount option and consequently can't pass the MS_RELATIME flag to mount(2). Fedora kernels are patched to mount every filesystem with norelatime. -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
