Re: chattr and ext2 extended attributes

Roger Gammans (roger@computer-surgery.co.uk)
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:13:27 +0100

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 06:08:22PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> The mount noatime and nodiratime disables
> the atime on files and dirs respectively for the whole mounted
> filesystem. A noatime flag stored in the directory however would
> allow disabling of atime on a per file or directory basis. IMHO
> it would be a very useful thing to have. I played with this flag
> a bit, and it does not appear to work.

In what context.
Do you mean the mount flag doesn't work, or you could make a ext2fs
attr for noatime work?

I only ask as it could shorten the life of some devices (say flash)
if they are mounted with atime, but then I guess you know this.

TTFN

-- 
Roger
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        --     damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
	


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