text: Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 501350
  There's no way to turn off the relatime filesystem mount misfeature.
  Last modified: 2009-09-21 18:23:59 EDT
  Description of problem:
  There's no way to turn off the relatime filesystem mount misfeature.
  Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  util-linux-ng-2.14.2-8.fc11.src.rpm
  kernel-2.6.29.3-140.fc11.src.rpm
  How reproducible:
  100%
  Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Mount (or remount) a filesystem with '-o norelatime'
  2. Look at its entry in /proc/mounts
  Actual results:
  relatime is set
  Expected results:
  relatime should not be set if 'o norelatime' is given
  Additional info:
  Examination of the code shows the problem. In the do_mount() routine
  in fs/namespace.c as modified by linux-2.6-relatime-by-default.patch
  in the kernel source package, mnt_flags is initialized to 0, then has
  MNT_RELATIME or'd in unconditionally. The only way to clear that bit
  is by having MS_STRICTATIME set in the flags parameter of do_mount()
  (passed in via mount(2)), but mount(8) has no provision to do that --
  when given the norelatime option, it just omits MS_RELATIME from the
  mount(2) mountflags argument.
  Comment:
  It would be nice to have a boolean default_relatime kernel boot option;
  F8 and F9 had that (linux-2.6-smarter-relatime.patch) but it went away
  in F10.
  Good point. Thanks.
  The MS_STRICTATIME support is already in upstream mount(8) code. I'll backport it to F10 and F11.
  This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
  Changing version to '11'.
  More information and reason for this action is here:
  util-linux-ng-2.14.2-11.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
  util-linux-ng-2.14.2-11.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
  Thank yiou. The strictatime explanation in man (8) mount will be confusing to many users.