Re: NODIRATIME...great work!

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 22:06:53 +1000


Mark Lord writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> ...
> > > is there a patch that works cleanly against 2.1.10x? if so, where? the
> > > only i could find was for 2.1.73.
> >
> > This is included in the late 2.1.x kernels. You don't need to patch
> > anything.
> ...
>
> You may have to patch the source code for mount-2.7
> to enable use of the nodiratime mount option.
>
> The redhat source code for mount that I had
> used its own "linux_fs.h" file, rather than "linux/fs.h",
> and thus never included the "#define SM_NODIRATIME 2048" macro

Yep. I told Andries about it back in April. The fix should be in
mount-2.7l. At the time he expected it to come out June or July.

Regards,

Richard....

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