Does relatime mount option interfere with popularity contest data?

[stream303]

I like to participate in the data collection provided by Debian's popularity contest, which I allow during setup.

One thing I also like to do is force the filesystem not to write timestamps to files marked read-only by using a mount point option in /etc/fstab.

Formerly, I used to use noatime in my fstab, but that made the data submitted from my box useless for the popularity-contest tally package.

Like Fedora and now Ubuntu, relatime is another option, but currently is not enabled by default with Lenny-Testing. I do it manually by reconfiguring my /etc/fstab. Example:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

I haven't been able to confirm if using relatime, in it's current Lenny-Testing incarnation, will interfere with providing accurate results to PopCon. I know noatime does, but I just don't want to submit bad info if relatime isn't prime time yet.

http://popcon.debian.org/

[basenvironment]

As far as I know relatime should be fine. My understanding is that relatime is now updating atime as well. At least something like that was discussed on the kernel list about a year ago.

btw, during install you can select mount options at the partitioning stage so no need to do change to relatime manually unless you wish to do so.

[stream303]

Ah, nice to know about being able to choose mount options at partition time. I'll have to look for it again, as I just installed Lenny on my AMD/64 desktop before reading this! I'm blown away.

Up next is the laptop, so I'll look for the mount option when I do that one.

Thanks for the tip!