>> 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.