laptop hard disk etiquette

Curtis Doty Curtis at GreenKey.net
Sun Oct 28 18:38:16 UTC 2007


2:20pm Jeremy Katz said:

> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 10:54 -0700, Curtis Doty wrote:
>> 1:43pm Jeremy Katz said:
>>> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 22:48 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> 4. fedora should probably default to relatime mount option
>>>>    on laptops at least (as Ingo suggested here:
>>>>    http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 )
>>>
>>> [katzj at aglarond ~]$ grep CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELATIME /boot/config*
>>> CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELATIME=y
>>> CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELATIME_VAL=1
>>>
>>> And it's been that way for months now :)
>>>
>>
>> Which is great. But don't make the mistake of thinking you can explictly
>> add the relatime option to / in fstab. Because mkinitrd cannot handle. :-(
>
> You don't have to add the option.  The right thing happens when the
> kernel mounts the filesystem
>

True, but when a *valid* option to the rootfs prevents boot, that's a very 
bad thing. .. I wonder what will happen if / has norelatime in fstab...

../C


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