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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:17:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Mount option "nomtime"?
Message-ID:  <200210081717.g98HHxjp051029@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Hi,

The mount(8) manpage doesn't mention it, so I assume that
there is no such thing as a "nomtime" option (analogous
to the "noatime" option) to prevent the mtimes of inodes
from being updated for each write access.

But maybe is there some other way to achieve that?

For example, updating of mtimes is not neccessary on a
file system that contains a news spool, or the content of
a web cache, or similar transient data.  Disabling those
updates might prevent quite some superfluous overhead.

I'm tempted to try implementing "nomtime" myself, but I
would prefer hearing some opinions first before wasting
time on something completely stupid.  :-)

Regards
   Oliver

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