Should we mount with reltime as default?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Sep 25 22:25:02 UTC 2008


Once upon a time, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> said:
> 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.

If you want to go that path, it should be added to the options set in
the filesystem superblock (ext3 has a field for default mount options)
at filesystem creation time.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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