Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:14:01 +0200 |
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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.
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