Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:04:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: Ext2 speedup (No atime update), concerns | From | Stephen Tweedie <> |
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Hi,
In article <Pine.LNX.3.93.960604223516.14149B-100000@kaliban.csoma.elte.hu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kaliban.csoma.elte.hu> writes:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Jamie Lokier wrote: > [ about the "no atime update" mount option ]
>> It would probably be best implemented as an inherited ext2 attribute >> then. Stick it on the news spool directory, and maybe those few files >> that keep the laptop owner's disks spinning.
> i think it's the best to have it as a mount option :) it's not really good > to extend the inode physical layout with such a thing IMHO. (though there > is some place reserved, but it should rather be used for things like > POSIX.6).
No, using an attribute flag is an extremely sensible way of doing it. There is already a 32-bit word reserved for flags, and we'd only be using one bit of this. POSIX.6 will require a separate mechanism entirely.
Cheers, Stephen. --- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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