Re: New feature
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:50:39 +0100 (BST)
> > The ATIME updates dirty all the inodes.
>
> That's true and ok, but it shouldn't be re-reading the media again
> should it? The dirty bit should be cleared, but the buffer shouldn't
> be marked invalid...
Its writing to the disk, to write all the new atime values into the
inode blocks