On Mi, 11 mai 11, 12:05:01, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I tested three setups: > > 1) Setup: rootflags and UUID fstab entry (the one I had before): > Result: no configured options for root filesystem > > rd@blackbox:~$ cat /proc/cmdline > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem > root=UUID=4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c ro quiet elevator=noop > rootflags=noatime,discard,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro > rd@blackbox:~$ > > from /etc/fstab: > UUID="4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c" / ext4 > noatime,discard,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > rd@blackbox:~$ mount > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This doesn't make sense. Could you try removing the quotes from the UUID="" entry in fstab? > The result of the third configuration (and to some extend also the first > configuration) is unexpected for me in the bug report from Ted Tso: > > "[...] Debian simply doesn't support the mount options for the root file > system in /etc/fstab having any effect on how the root file system is > mounted. The root file system is mounted by the kernel, and the mount > options used by the kernel are specified by the rootflags= option on > the kernel's boot command line. [...]" > > Does anybody understand how both, my data and Ted's report make sense? > > Can we be sure that the output of the mount command reflects the system state > (or does it even display wrong information in some configurations I did)? AFAICT 'mount' displays (more or less) the contents of /etc/mtab, which may under certain conditions not be up-to-date. /proc/mounts is more accurate, but I doubt in your case this is an issue. As for the options in /etc/fstab being applied or not, if you read the thread on debian-devel, it was pointed out that Debian's initscript(s) will remount the root fs with the options from /etc/fstab, it's just that some options can not be changed on a *remount*. For those particular options you will have to use either rootflags or tune2fs. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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