improve-relatime.patch dropped from F10

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Tue Jan 6 19:10:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> I mean... if you don't know about this bug and add relatime to fstab, 
> you've just made it impossible to upgrade the kernel. And the 
> work-around (edit fstab to remove relatime, 'yum update kernel', edit 
> fstab to put back relatime) isn't very friendly.

relatime is supported in the stock kernel, but without the heuristic 
that avoids tmpreaper deleting your files at inappropriate times. It 
should cause failure.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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