Should we mount with reltime as default?

[Eric Sandeen]

Michel Salim wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> 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,
> 

probably release notes, since default relatime is a fedora-special, and
not upstream.

-Eric