Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:06:25 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-release@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall misc.c Message-ID: <199803240906.UAA08120@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_2_2) > release/sysinstall misc.c > Log: > Remove MNT_NOATIME option; it makes the atime predate the ctime which > is a worisome side-effect. Sorry, Bruce. But it's normal for the atime to predate the ctime for files that have never been read. This should be the normal case for freshly installed files, since installs should not waste time reading what they have just written. The case where timestamps are copied from a source file system doesn't seem to apply here, but is interesting. cp -p apparently copies the initial atime of the source. If the source hasn't been read for a while, this gives a target atime way behind the target ctime, not to mention quite different from the source atime if the source fs is mounted without -noatime. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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