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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2005 18:57:19 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
Cc:        Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Modifying file access time upon exec...
Message-ID:  <20050529165719.GF54337@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050527131014.GA93850@stack.nl>
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>

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Hi Marc, Ken,

> > I'm not sure why you say NFS filesystems can't be mounted with noatime.
> 
> 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.

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 ?

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >



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