Should we mount with reltime as default?

Michel Salim michel.sylvan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 21:55:09 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> said:
>> FWIW, we don't carry that patch in the kernel any more.
>> Until upstream takes it, it's unlikely to come back.
>
> Ah, okay.  I looked at the kernel SRPM from rawhide, and the patch is
> still in there, but now I see in the spec that it is commented out.
>
> That would be something release-note worthy IMHO, since it is a change
> in behavior.
>
It makes sense to ship as close a kernel as possible to upstream -- in
this case, should the 'relatime' be introduced in the userspace
somewhere, though? Whichever utility (anaconda? hal?) touches
/etc/fstab should add 'relatime' appropriately.

Regards
,

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