From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
Cc: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support
Date: 15 Jun 2004 16:02:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <orbrjkabm3.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040614220917.GA18941@citd.de>
On Jun 14, 2004, Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:12:59PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> I've heard more than once about the atime bit being used to as
>> proof that a user had actually seen the contents of a file although
>> s/he claimed s/he hadn't. If it was root-only,
> man mount
> /noatime
-> You can disable updating the atime for the whole filesystem.
As a sysadmin that intends to use atime as proof, you don't do that.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-15 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-12 1:11 Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-12 16:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-12 18:09 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-12 18:22 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-14 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 13:46 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 14:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 19:25 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 16:57 ` David Lang
2004-06-14 19:34 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 15:38 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-14 21:12 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-14 21:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-14 22:09 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-06-15 19:02 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2004-06-16 1:49 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-14 22:40 ` Cesar Eduardo Barros
2004-06-14 23:14 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-15 19:01 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-15 19:32 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-06-15 22:03 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-16 6:21 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
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