Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759960AbZCZRfn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:35:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755386AbZCZRfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:35:34 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:59095 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754345AbZCZRfd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:35:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:38 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , Jens Axboe , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29) Message-ID: <20090326173237.GB8465@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , Jens Axboe , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Roland McGrath References: <20090325185824.GO32307@mit.edu> <20090325215137.GQ32307@mit.edu> <20090325235041.GA11024@duck.suse.cz> <20090326090630.GA9369@elte.hu> <20090326113705.GV32307@mit.edu> <20090326140312.GB14822@elte.hu> <20090326144707.GA6239@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 15 Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/