Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263304AbUFNXOF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:14:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263324AbUFNXOF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:14:05 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:23986 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263304AbUFNXOD (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:14:03 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support Organization: Deban GNU/Linux Homesite In-Reply-To: <20040614224006.GD1961@flower.home.cesarb.net> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.5 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:14:01 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 18 In article <20040614224006.GD1961@flower.home.cesarb.net> you wrote: > superuser). The only thing O_NOATIME gains is the absence of a race > condition where another program can read the file without it being noted > in the atime. And it will not dirty the inode, which is a fairly big saving for filesystem scanning tools. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/