Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> How about if we suggest instead that laptop owners mount their file >>> systems with the noatime option? That solves the problem in general, >>> rather than forcing app writers to modify cat, ls, sh, etc. >> >> It'd be ok if there were a noatime mount option that applied only to >> directories. > > That's the "nodiratime" option of mount(8), on recent-enough Linux > kernels that support it. I hope that suffices.
And here I searched carefully through mount(8) (it's not there, at least not on Debian unstable) thinking that'd be authoritative enough. Should have googled. That does the trick for me. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
