Should we mount with reltime as default?

[Michel Salim]

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,

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