Bug#616317: base: commit= ext3 mount option in fstab has no effect.

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 616317 initscripts
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Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:24:09AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

>> Could we not have init remount root based on /etc/fstab?
[...]
> Also, with the version of initscripts in experimental, the domount
> mount helper can remount filesystems with the options from /etc/fstab.

I guess that means this bug was fixed by initscripts 2.88dsf-13.5.

[...]
>> I suppose the problem then is that some
>> mount options can't practically be changed when remounting.  (Worse, the
>> failure to change them is silent in some cases.  And that is definitely
>> a bug.)

That sounds like a separate bug, though probably an important one.
Could you say more about it?  For example, which package would have to
be changed to fix it?

lazily,
Jonathan