Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:50:21 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] smarter atime updates |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Well, just doing a code check of the update_atime() and UPDATE_ATIME() > users, and they are all in readlink(), follow_link(), open_namei(), > and various fs _readdir() codes. None of them (AFAICS) depend on the > mark_inode_dirty() as a side-effect. This means it should be safe.
More importantly, _if_ somebody depended on the side effects, they'd have been thwarted by the "noatime" mount option anyway, so any such bug would not be a new bug.
Linus
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