Mount option "relatime" doesn't work on kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Wed Nov 7 20:09:48 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:15 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Georg Wittig wrote:
> > kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7 doesn't boot when I use the mount option
> > "relatime" for the root filesystem in /etc/fstab. It complains about
> > an unknown mount option when trying to mount the root filesystem.
> > Finally booting stops with kernel panic.
> >
> > kernel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7 works fine.
>
> Does https://bugzilla.redhat.com/296361 (nash mount should support
> relatime) shed any light on the problem you're having? Particularly
> this comment[1]:
>
> Comment #4 From Stu Tomlinson on 2007-10-30 21:40 EST
>
> This is not directly dependent on kernel version, but on the mount
> options specified in /etc/fstab *at the time a kernel update is
> installed*.
>
> I now know that relatime is actually the default now, so anyone
> encountering this can remove relatime from their /etc/fstab and
> rebuild the initrd for their kernel to avoid this bug (I still
> think the patch should be applied for safety), and still have /
> mounted using relatime.
>
> To rebuild your initrd you can run:
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.23.1-10
> after removing the relatime flag from /etc/fstab. (This is
> probably an overkill way of rebuilding the initrd, it may be
> sufficient to run:
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.img 2.6.23.1-10.fc7
> but I know the 1st command is what kernel rpm installs use).
Make sure you specify the "-f" flag to mkinitrd if you don't delete the
old initrd image first.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296361#c4
>
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