From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:03:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040614140356.GA21349@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040614134652.GA1961@flower.home.cesarb.net>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:46:52AM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I don't see why preserving the mtime and ctime would be necessary, since
> to move a file away you either don't touch it (using rename) or only
> read and unlink it (to write to a tape or other filesystem, and you can
> save the atime and mtime while doing it). So O_NOATIME is enough for
> both behaviours.
Maybe some day the file needs to come back from the tape ;-) Or rather
in the HSM scenario a part of the file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-14 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-12 1:11 [PATCH] O_NOATIME support Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-12 16:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-12 18:09 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-12 18:22 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-14 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 13:46 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 14:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-14 19:25 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 16:57 ` David Lang
2004-06-14 19:34 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 15:38 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-14 21:12 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-14 21:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-14 22:09 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-06-15 19:02 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-16 1:49 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-14 22:40 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 23:14 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-15 19:01 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-15 19:32 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-06-15 22:03 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-16 6:21 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
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