[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#616317: base: commit= ext3 mount option in fstab has no effect.

[Ilya V. Kalujny]

Package: base
Severity: normal


I`m not sure which pacakge to indicate for this bug, so I`m putting it into base, please forward as necessary. Some guys on #debian channel were able to reproduce this aswell.

The commit=[sec] ext3 mount option in fstab has no effect. After putting noatime,commit=150 into line for root filesystem options in fstab and booting I do "grep ext3 /proc/mounts" and it shows the commit interval is still default 5 sec. Editing line with root filesystem options during boot with GRUB doesnt have any effect either. The only way to change commit interval for ext3 is to remount root filesystem with "mount -o remount,commit=150,..". Whats worth noting is if you do "sudo mount | grep ext3" after boot it gives me line like this: "/dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=150,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)" which makes me think something is appening default value commit option.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-rc4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash