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Re: add dd support for O_NOATIME
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: add dd support for O_NOATIME |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:23:46 +0100 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
And here I searched carefully through mount(8) (it's not there,
at least not on Debian unstable) thinking that'd be authoritative enough.
Should have googled.
That does the trick for me.
Thanks!