[oe] [PATCH/RFC] base-files: add noatime to rootfs mount options

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft at inbox.ru> wrote:
> On 13:48 Sun 29 Mar     , Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 15-03-09 21:47, Dmitry Artamonow wrote:
[...]
>>> Fix it by adding noatime to rootfs mount options in fstab.
>>
>> Isn't 'relatime' a better option?
>
> Maybe yes, but we need more care in this case, because relatime has
> been introduced in 2.6.20 [1], and there's still can be machines using
> older kernels (judging solely by looking at the recipes in recipes/linux).
> I fear that we may break booting on these machines by passing
> unsupported option to mount.
>
> [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_20#head-6804816ab4f07548635032afbedd3e1f4eb3d1d7

I belive that if those machines still uses old kernels they have the
responsability to deal with those things; besides that it is very
common for machines to provide custom fstab files so it won't
hurt to put a specific one to workaround it if required.

Regards,

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