Re: [CentOS] ext3 writeback mode for root parition

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 11:43, Douglas E. Warner wrote:

I'm trying to enable writeback mode for the root partition.  However, adding the normal option "rootflags=data=writeback" to my grub.conf kernel line doesn't result in writeback mode (according to `dmesg`). Does anyone know of a way to enable this?

Okay, I /finally/ found an article on some Red Hat list (oh no - I mentioned the R-word!) describing the problem:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/psyche-list/2002-December/msg01645.html

In a nutshell, initrd takes care of mounting your root partition, not the kernel, so you need to make it mount your root partition in writeback mode by modifying the fstab them building a new one.

-Doug