[haiku-development] Re: Access times of files and stat

  • From: "Daniel J. Axtens" <danielax@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:12:55 +0900

>> This is incorrect, right? As a reference, on Linux stat and ls don't
>> bump the access time.
>
> The access time is not maintained by BFS; it will always just return
> the current time.

Is that with the behaviour of a FS under Linux mounted with the noatime flag?

IMHO, having BFS consistent with that would make the most sense - it's
already been well argued[1], implemented[2], tested etc. Having said
that, I still can't quite figure out what the times given by a noatime
FS are! :S

Daniel

[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
[2] I believe it's now the default on Ubuntu, at least.

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