From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261843AbVCAJhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:37:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261844AbVCAJhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:37:22 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:17171 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261843AbVCAJhO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:37:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:37:09 +0000 From: Russell King To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: updating mtime for char/block devices? Message-ID: <20050301093709.A29817@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <42225CEE.1030104@gmx.net> <1109576878.6298.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4223BB3B.4060309@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <4223BB3B.4060309@gmx.net>; from c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net on Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly > would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a > different filesystem, right? tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk. Intentionally. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core