Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support

Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-15T19:03:05Z

On Jun 14, 2004, Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> 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.

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