ext4 defaults and access time

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 20:47:30 UTC 2010


On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
>> All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab.
>> Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used:
>
> Defaults are sometimes surprising.
> Let's have a look at
>   cat /proc/mount

I think you're onto something...

/dev/sda5 /home ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

I definitely don't want relatime there. Would something like

.... ext4    defaults,atime ....

in fstab get rid of this?

Andras


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