Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:35:28 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modifying file access time upon exec... Message-ID: <1117542928.16376.3.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050529165719.GF54337@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> 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> <20050529165719.GF54337@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:57 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Marc, Ken,
>=20
> > > I'm not sure why you say NFS filesystems can't be mounted with noatim=
e.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> I thought that, according to the goal of this patch, the "noatime"
> option you were talking about would be in fact a "noatime-on-exec"
> option. Access time would be still updated on other cases.
> Am I wrong ?
This is correct. Other than changing it so that the atime on executable
files gets modified when they get executed this patch should not change
anything.
--=20
Ken Smith
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