Should we mount with reltime as default?

[Michel Salim]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> said:
>> It makes sense to ship as close a kernel as possible to upstream -- in
>> this case, should the 'relatime' be introduced in the userspace
>> somewhere, though? Whichever utility (anaconda? hal?) touches
>> /etc/fstab should add 'relatime' appropriately.
>
> If you want to go that path, it should be added to the options set in
> the filesystem superblock (ext3 has a field for default mount options)
> at filesystem creation time.

That would exclude removable media, though?

Regards,

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