Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 10:40:55 EST


On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:55:04PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:54:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > Whilst on the subject of RELATIME, is there any good reason why
> > not to make this a default mount option ?
>
> Ubuntu has been shipping with noatime as the default for some time
> now, with no obvious problems (I'm running Ubuntu). I see relatime as
> an improvement on noatime.

The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks
as you mentioned in the relatime changelog, so I'm surprised that
they turned it on by default. With relatime fixing that however,
I'm also unaware of anything that breaks. I'd be curious to
do a Fedora test release with relatime, but I know the answer I'll
get when I recommend we add it to our generated fstabs..

"If it's good enough, why isn't it the kernel default"

Hence my current line of questioning ;-)

Dave

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