From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 19:19:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C9716A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 19:19:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2311C43D1F for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 19:19:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IH600C8I3JOHU60@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 23:26:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dsa.des.no ([80.203.228.37]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IH500FS5XUFK5R0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 21:23:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dsa.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 5EFF645165; Fri, 27 May 2005 21:19:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (xps.des.no [10.0.0.12]) by dsa.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id D253745157; Fri, 27 May 2005 21:19:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AD9BC33C1C; Fri, 27 May 2005 21:19:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:19:15 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-reply-to: <20050527131014.GA93850@stack.nl> To: Marc Olzheim Message-id: <867jhkiij0.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on dsa.des.no References: <1117139065.82793.20.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20050527091750.GB91258@stack.nl> <1117195655.88498.9.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20050527131014.GA93850@stack.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Cc: Ken Smith , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modifying file access time upon exec... X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 19:19:21 -0000 Marc Olzheim writes: > No, I'm saying that there are filesystems you wouldn't want to mount > with noatime (/tmp, /var/tmp, /var/mail, /var/spool/*) because some > software depends on the atime being adjusted. Any software that depends on the value of atime is broken by design. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no