Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f8R7KoZ07048 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:20:50 -0700 Received: from ii.uib.no (eik.ii.uib.no [129.177.16.3]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f8R7KlD07027 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:20:47 -0700 Received: from apal-192.ii.uib.no (apal.ii.uib.no) [129.177.192.27] by ii.uib.no with esmtp (Exim 3.03) id 15mVTS-0001Tw-00 ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:20:46 +0200 Received: (from janfrode@localhost) by apal.ii.uib.no (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id f8R7Kjx26390; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:20:45 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:20:45 +0200 From: Jan-Frode Myklebust To: thomas graichen Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS on laptops Message-ID: <20010927092044.B24118@ii.uib.no> References: <8064.1001554820@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from list-linux.sgi.xfs@spoiled.org on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:38:38AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > > see the thread from the same question i asked here some weeks ago > called "xfs on notebooks (noflushd etc.)" - what came up there was > that it should work as long as / is mounted with noatime which > seems to require some work with initrd because noatime seems to be > ignored as a root mount option ... did not find the time to play > around with this until now Can't you just issue a 'mount -o noatime,remount /' after the machine is booted? -jf