Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:37:09 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: updating mtime for char/block devices? |
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly > would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a > different filesystem, right?
tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk. Intentionally.
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