Hello, I just found out that 'noatime' mount option is ignored on my system for / (root) partition. In /etc/fstab I have entry for /:
/dev/sda6 / ext3 noatime,usrquota,grpquota and 'mount' command shows: /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,usrquota,grpquota) but /proc/mounts does not show noatime option: /dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 When I do 'cat <some_file>', 'ls -lu' shows that its access time _is_ modified. However I can do 'mount -o remount /' and filesystem is then remounted correctly (access time is not modified anymore), I want to ask if this is normal behaviour and remounting / after boot is common solution. The root of problem is probably the fact, that /etc/fstab is not available when / is about to mount. But I did not find it mentioned in any ext3 tweaking guide or so. Everywhere is just "add noatime option to fstab and you're fine". In Gentoo Handbook is also nothing about it (and noatime option is used for /). I think initrd could solve this problem but I do not want it. Is noatime for / working for you? Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
