ext4 defaults and access time

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Tue Feb 2 22:08:57 UTC 2010


Andras Simon wrote:
> 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?

There is a norelatime option, but it could be not enough.

I had this kind of problem some time ago and Kevin Fenzi told me
how to do it:

http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=121542196521553&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=121545811619620&w=2

Bye.

-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it


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