Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:13:27 +0100 | From | Roger Gammans <> | Subject | Re: chattr and ext2 extended attributes |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 06:08:22PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > The mount noatime and nodiratime disables > the atime on files and dirs respectively for the whole mounted > filesystem. A noatime flag stored in the directory however would > allow disabling of atime on a per file or directory basis. IMHO > it would be a very useful thing to have. I played with this flag > a bit, and it does not appear to work.
In what context. Do you mean the mount flag doesn't work, or you could make a ext2fs attr for noatime work?
I only ask as it could shorten the life of some devices (say flash) if they are mounted with atime, but then I guess you know this.
TTFN -- Roger Think of the mess on the carpet. Sensible people do all their demon-summoning in the garage, which you can just hose down afterwards. -- damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
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