Fs's affected by smart atime updates

Fs's affected by smart atime updates

[Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena]

Greetings everyone,
	I've found out that NTFS and FAT are not affected
adversely by the atime update patch by Andrew Morton.
(atime resolution in NTFS is 1 hour and in FAT, well, 
1 day!). I'd be thankful if anyone could point out
which filesystems, if any, are _adversely_ affected by this.

	Thanks.
		- ioj

Re: Fs's affected by smart atime updates

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 23:30 07/12/01, Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena wrote:
>         I've found out that NTFS and FAT are not affected
>adversely by the atime update patch by Andrew Morton.

"adversely"? The patch is an improvement, not something that makes things 
worse...

>(atime resolution in NTFS is 1 hour and in FAT, well,
>1 day!). I'd be thankful if anyone could point out
>which filesystems, if any, are _adversely_ affected by this.

Huh? Atime updates in the old NTFS driver do not happen at all unless I 
have missed something.

Otherwise, the time resolution itself is down to 100ns intervals which in 
Linux obviously isn't possible, so the Linux atime resolution will be used 
instead.

The new NTFS TNG driver will be doing the atime updates properly once write 
support is implemented.

Best regards,

Anton


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