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From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:06:24PM -0500, Sean Barry wrote:
> Hello,
> Is it possible to configure the file system driver to Not record the time
> and date stamp metadata? 
> 
> I will be starting a personal project of setting up a NAS server using
> FreeNas. This will be a file storage and I do not have a need for extra
> metadata information. 

This is part of the inode, where file size and such is also noted.
You don't win anything by not saveing modtime.
However, you can mount using -noatime, so the the inode won't get
updated on read access.

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B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.