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Re: add dd support for O_NOATIME
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: add dd support for O_NOATIME |
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Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:21:34 -0800 |
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>> How about if we suggest instead that laptop owners mount their file
>> systems with the noatime option? That solves the problem in general,
>> rather than forcing app writers to modify cat, ls, sh, etc.
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> It'd be ok if there were a noatime mount option that applied only to
> directories.
That's the "nodiratime" option of mount(8), on recent-enough Linux
kernels that support it. I hope that suffices.