Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:05:14 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: New feature |
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 21:49:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Correct! Now, is a directory access a file access? I don't think it should be.
Why not? It has been forever at least for ext2. Have a look at the end of fs/ext2/dir.c:ext2_readdir().
I think POSIX even states that this is how things should work.
Those who consider the overhead of ATIME updates completely unacceptable should enable NO_ATIME on their partitions.
ATIME is the access time for an inode, when you read an inode which happens to be a directory you are accessing it.
Later, David "Sparc" Miller davem@caip.rutgers.edu
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