Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:38 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Linus Torvalds (torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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.

Surely it should also look at the real /etc/fstab after mounting root r/o
and then flip the options needed so you don't have to.
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