Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

From: Bill Nottingham
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 13:35:43 EST


Linus Torvalds (torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> And quite frankly, even if you then _manually_ put 'relatime' in
> /etc/fstab, the default Fedora install will totally ignore it. Why?
> Because it mounts the root partition while using initrd, and totally
> ignores /etc/fstab.

It should honor /etc/fstab changes, if the initramfs is rebuilt
after the change is made. If it doesn't, that's a bug.

Bill
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