Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:11:25 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <19980928081125.A5772@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199809272146.FAA14600@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 05:46:36AM %2B0800 References: <199809272001.NAA27569@usr05.primenet.com> <199809272146.FAA14600@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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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
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