Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:03:56 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support |
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:46:52AM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > I don't see why preserving the mtime and ctime would be necessary, since > to move a file away you either don't touch it (using rename) or only > read and unlink it (to write to a tape or other filesystem, and you can > save the atime and mtime while doing it). So O_NOATIME is enough for > both behaviours.
Maybe some day the file needs to come back from the tape ;-) Or rather in the HSM scenario a part of the file.
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