Should we mount with reltime as default?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Sep 25 20:24:40 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:17:04PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
 > Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> said:
 > > Michel Salim wrote:
 > > > Oops, yes. Incidentally, the manpage mispells it as 'realatime' in the
 > > > norelatime section; time to file a bug. No mention that relatime is
 > > > the default either -- does this belong in the manpage or in the
 > > > release notes?
 > > 
 > > probably release notes, since default relatime is a fedora-special, and
 > > not upstream.
 > 
 > I'd think that if Fedora is going to carry a custom patch to set this in
 > the kernel, Fedora could also carry a custom patch noting it in the
 > mount(8) man page.

FWIW, we don't carry that patch in the kernel any more.
Until upstream takes it, it's unlikely to come back.

	Dave

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