On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Ryan Sawhill <rsawhill+flist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ryan, thanks for mentioning removing relatime flag before building >> a new initrd. I forgot to mention that. See the bugzilla entry link I >> posted before (comment #4) which explains what's going on. > > Looking at that bug task now I see it's totally relevant and explains > our issue. Doesn't have anything to do with this particular kernel I > see. It hadn't occurred to me that this was the first time I had > updated my kernel since adding relatime to my laptop's fstab. > > I want to ESPECIALLY thank you for the pointer Kenny, because > something said on that page led me to do a little research and realize > that by default, relatime is actually set for all filesystems by the > kernel nowadays. Wow. Had no idea. I only started using it because I > found it in the mount man page. SO GARY, you can take your relatime > stuff out of fstab too. :) For more info, see > http://lwn.net/Articles/244829/ ... then if you want even more google > "default_relatime". (On a kernel that has the update, you'll find > /proc/sys/kernel/fs/default_relatime, which will be set to 1 unless > you change it with a boot option [or on the fly].) > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Kenny/Ryan -- mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64.img 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64 this worked like a charm! now I gotta start reading lwn.net/web info and see why including relatime in my fstab caused this situation. Many Many thanks! -- Gary ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
