Description of problem: In my fstab, I have my local partitions (/ and a storage) set to mount with relatime. New releases of the kernel have since my currently running version (kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8) have failed to mount the partitions due to relatime no longer being recognized as a mount option. Has support for the option been dropped and if so, why? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 // Works here (what I'm using now) kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 // Stopped working here kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 // Still doesn't work How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a partition mount with relatime in fstab. 2. Use new kernel Actual results: Fails to boot. Expected results: Boot Additional info: $ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/1 / ext3 relatime 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 noatime 1 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=storage /mnt/storage ext3 relatime 0 0
relatime is now the default in Fedora.
This is a mkinitrd bug.
I removed relatime from fstab and I still get the "relatime is not a valid mount option" message with the newest kernel. The interesting thing is that the kernel that works with it was then unable to mount / in read-write mode. I would guess that this means that after doing relatime, you can't go without (it's my guess at least).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 296361 ***