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Bug#481653: marked as done (use relatime for default install)

Your message dated Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:39:38 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#481653: debian-installer: relatime status?
has caused the Debian Bug report #481653,
regarding use relatime for default install
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20080517

It is rumored that Colin Watson is working on adding support for using 
relatime  to d-i. I couldn't find anything in the bts, so I am filing this 
bug to track the progress of this support and namely using relatime for the 
_default_install_.

Here is the info I've been able to find on the subject

LWN summary of lkml thread
http://lwn.net/Articles/244829/

Kerneltrap summary of lkml thread
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

ubuntu installer work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/199427

busybox relatime work
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460824

relatime support was listed as added but broken in the lenny beta 1 
announcement
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2008/20080317
and errata page
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata

mount support for relatime
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/25/380

I'm not sure if the improved relatime patch is in upstream/debian kernels 
yet.

HTH,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org

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tags 481653 wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:43:04AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > What is the status of having d-i install systems with relatime?
> 
> Currently it is possible to use relatime as an optional mount option.
> Otherwise the status is still the same as stated in:
> http://bugs.debian.org/481653#10
> 
> I think it's more a question for the kernel team or d-devel than for the 
> D-I team to decide whether we want relatime enabled by default for 
> Debian, either with or without the patch linked there. If we do want that 
> patch, then it will probably need to be pushed upstream for it to be 
> acceptable to the kernel team.
> 
> Someone needs to pull the cart for this. You maybe, Matt?
> 
> Enabling it by default in D-I seems post-lenny to me anyway. The changes 
> needed for that don't seem too complex.

This is the default in the kernel as of 2.6.30:

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=11ff6f05f1e836a6a02369a4c4b64757e484adc1
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d0adde574b8487ef30f69e2d08bba769e4be513f
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a1c01c9477602ee8b44548a9405b2c1d587b5a2

See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/26/260 and thread; it's been a bit
contentious, but Linus is being pretty firm about it so I doubt it will
change back. At this point I think that by procrastination we have
reached the point where there's no reason for d-i to bother setting the
relatime flag, as we'll surely be shipping something at least as new as
2.6.30 in squeeze, so I'm going to wontfix this bug. Let us know if
there's still some reason for action in the installer.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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