Re: NODIRATIME...great work!

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 19:50:11 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Shawn Leas writes:
> > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > > mlord@pobox.com writes:
> > > > Perry Harrington wrote:
> > > >
> > > > .... glories of NODIRATIME ...
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks, this was actually more noticable than the noatime patch.
> > > >
> > > > I missed the start of this.
> > > >
> > > > Did you patch the kernel, or is there a version of mount(8)
> > > > that supports "-o nodiratime" ??
> > >
> > > Recent 2.1.x kernels have the MS_NODIRATIME kernel patch. mount-2.7k
> > > has the "nodiratime" mount(8) patch.
> >
> > I have mount 2.7l, and that does not allow nodiratime. Where might I find
> > that patch, or a copy of 2.7k?
>
> Add the following line to mount_constants.h for mount-2.7k:
> #define MS_NODIRATIME 2048 /* Do not update directory access times */

Thank you, i guess i had no insight into why the gaush darn thing wasn't
working.

mount 2.7l works ok with this line added. Why is it now included by
default?

-Shawn

> Regards,
>
> Richard....

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