Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> Andras Simon wrote: All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: >>> Defaults are sometimes surprising. >>> Let's have a look at >>>

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/3/10, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Can someone explain why it would be desirable to go to atime for the > mounts, which I understand is an expensive option in terms of IO? I > thought that the move to relative as default was a carefully > considered issue by kernel developers? I don't remember any

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Cloaked
tp://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=121545811619620&w=2 > Try adding "strictatime" to the fstab options.  This permits overriding > any kernel defaults (e.g. ext4 defaulting to "relatime"). Can someone explain why it would be desirable to go to atime for the mount

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/3/10, Rick Stevens wrote: > Try adding "strictatime" to the fstab options. This permits overriding > any kernel defaults (e.g. ext4 defaulting to "relatime"). This did it! Thanks! Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/02/2010 02:08 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> Andras Simon wrote: All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: >>> Defaults are sometimes surprising. >>> L

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > There is a norelatime option, but it could be not enough. > > I had this kind of problem some time ago and Kevin Fenzi told me > how to do it: > > http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=121542196521553&w=2 > http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=1215458116196

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Andras Simon wrote: > On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Andras Simon wrote: >>> All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. >>> Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: >> Defaults are sometimes surprising. >> Let's have a look at >> cat /proc/mount > > I think

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:54 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. > Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: > > [si...@pici uffi]$ date > Tue Feb 2 20:48:22 CET 2010 > [si...@pici uffi]$ cat clsql-uffi-loader.lisp > /dev/null > [s

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Nichols
Andras Simon wrote: > On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Andras Simon wrote: >>> All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. >>> Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: >> Defaults are sometimes surprising. >> Let's have a look at >> cat /proc/mount > > I think

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. >> Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: > > Defaults are sometimes surprising. > Let's have a look at > cat /proc/mount I think you're onto something... /dev

Re: ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Andras Simon wrote: > All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. > Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: Defaults are sometimes surprising. Let's have a look at cat /proc/mount -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@list

ext4 defaults and access time

2010-02-02 Thread Andras Simon
All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: [si...@pici uffi]$ date Tue Feb 2 20:48:22 CET 2010 [si...@pici uffi]$ cat clsql-uffi-loader.lisp > /dev/null [si...@pici uffi]$ ls -lu clsql-uffi-loader.lisp -rw-rw-r--. 1 simon si