Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265879AbUFOTDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:03:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265877AbUFOTCy (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:02:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:8619 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265874AbUFOTCZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:02:25 -0400 To: Matthias Schniedermeyer Cc: Cesar Eduardo Barros , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support References: <20040612011129.GD1967@flower.home.cesarb.net> <20040614220917.GA18941@citd.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team Date: 15 Jun 2004 16:02:12 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20040614220917.GA18941@citd.de> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 908 Lines: 18 On Jun 14, 2004, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:12:59PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> I've heard more than once about the atime bit being used to as >> proof that a user had actually seen the contents of a file although >> s/he claimed s/he hadn't. If it was root-only, > man mount > /noatime -> You can disable updating the atime for the whole filesystem. As a sysadmin that intends to use atime as proof, you don't do that. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.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/