Disabling atime - bad mount behavior
Christopher Brown
snecklifter at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 12:09:22 UTC 2007
On 10/08/07, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> After reading the article on kernel list, I tried out noatime on root
> partition. I also added 'data=writeback'. Guess what? Unbootable system.
>
> I had assumed (wrongly) that mount was smart enough that for something so
> critical as mounting / it would just ignore a bad option. Wrong.
>
> IMO, this should REALLY be fixed.
No, mount reasonably assumes that if a user is fiddling about with
mount options for the root file system then user can resolve an
unbootable system because option is bad.
Chris
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