Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756793AbZCZRwb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756563AbZCZRwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52682 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752855AbZCZRwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Bill Nottingham 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) In-Reply-To: <20090326173237.GB8465@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: 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> <20090326173237.GB8465@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 26 On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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. Why the hell should I rebuild initramfs? Anyway, I fixed it. I don't use initramfs any more, after all the idiocies it has done. I had to make everything primary partitions in order to do that, but hey, that solved a lot of other problems too, so that was no loss. Linus -- 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/