Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> On 2/24/2012 10:20 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Richard Ems:
> >>>> MOUNT
> >>>> On mount I will use the options
> >>>>
> >>>> mount -o noatime,nobarrier,nofail,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,inode64
> >>>> /dev/sdX1 /mount_point
> >>>
> >>> I think that the logbufs/logbsize option matches the default here.
> >>> Use delaylog if applicable. See the xfs FAQ.
> >>
> >> Yes, if I trust the mount manual page, it states "The default value
> >> is 8 buffers for any recent kernel." . I suppose 3.2.6 is "a recent
> >> kernel", so this could be avoided, but having it explicitly on the
> >> mkfs.xfs line does not hurt, or?
> >> And for logbsize: "The default value for any recent kernel is
> >> 32768."
> >>
> >> But then at the end of the manual page for mount it says "December
> >> 2004", so how actual is this information? Can the default mount
> >> values be shown by running mount with some verbose and dry-run
> >> parameters?
> >
> > Does cat /proc/mounts show them? /proc/mounts is more detailed than
> > mount or mount -l.
>
> Vanilla kernel.org 3.2.6:
>
> ~$ cat /proc/mounts
> /dev/sda7 /samba xfs rw,relatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
>
> It doesn't show the default logbufs and logbsize values. I asked about
> this specific issue over a year ago, because the documentation is
> inconsistent, and you can't get the default values out of a running
> system. If you can I don't know how. If someone stated a method, I
> can't recall it. :(
>
> I do recall Dave, IIRC, saying something to the effect of 'just use the
> defaults, as they are 8 and 256K in recent kernels anyway'. That's not
> a direct quote, but my recollection.
As I wrote it I thought about that for XFS the option might not be
displayed. Cause I remember having seen something similar quite some time
ago.
With NFS this works quite well, also with Ext4 and vfat it seems to me.
I think it would be good to include default options in /proc/mounts.
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