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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) said: 
> > And quite frankly, even if you then _manually_ put 'relatime' in 
> > /etc/fstab, the default Fedora install will totally ignore it. Why? 
> > Because it mounts the root partition while using initrd, and totally 
> > ignores /etc/fstab.
> 
> It should honor /etc/fstab changes, if the initramfs is rebuilt
> after the change is made. If it doesn't, that's a bug.

Why the hell should I rebuild initramfs? 

Anyway, I fixed it. I don't use initramfs any more, after all the idiocies 
it has done. I had to make everything primary partitions in order to do 
that, but hey, that solved a lot of other problems too, so that was no 
loss.

			Linus