ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
partman-basicmethods (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
partman-ext3 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
partman-jfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
partman-partitioning (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
partman-reiserfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
partman-xfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
ext3 partitions should be mounted with relatime/noatime for everyone to reduce unnessary disk activity,prevent useless unparking of harddisk heads for laptop users and increase performance (reading from disk or cache means writing to disk to update atime).
More information :
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a related bug asking to support relatime :
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A relevant comment by Bart Samwell (maintainer of laptop-mode-tools and acpi-support in Debian) :
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Fedora Core 8 will use relatime for all mounts.
This bug might be one of the contributors to the famous Load_Cycle_Count bug :
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a related bug asking to support relatime : /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ util-linux/ +bug/145332
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