From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 23:45:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11601 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11590 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id IAA07616 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:45:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (VMailer, from userid 101) id 9D7111534; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:11:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:11:25 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <19980928081125.A5772@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199809272001.NAA27569@usr05.primenet.com> <199809272146.FAA14600@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.4i In-Reply-To: <199809272146.FAA14600@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 05:46:36AM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-BETA/ELF ctm#4660 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Peter Wemm: > So? what's being written while you're reading a file? The access time. st_atime Time when file data last accessed. Changed by the mknod(2), utimes(2) and read(2) system calls. ^^^^^^^ > If you're reading and writing the file together, then the modtime stamps > will cause the inode to be written out. If you're just reading, there is > no metadata dependency at all because nothing is changed at all. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-BETA #0: Sat Sep 19 23:38:25 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message