Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:35:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: New feature |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Arthur Jerijian wrote:
> Sounds like the ls -lR operation updated the atimes of every single > directory entry starting from /, and perhaps all the files in all the > directories as well. The sync command writes these atimes back to > the disk, which is why it takes so long. > > There used to be a patch that disabled the use of atime altogether. Is > this patch still around? Did it make it to 2.1? > > Thanks! > --Arthur
I think it's now a mount option.
Cheers, DJ Richard B. Johnson Analogic Corporation Penguin : Linux version 2.1.55 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to stay on the trailing edge of technology. Linux : Engineering tool Spam : sync@localhost, daemon@loghost
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