kubuntu 9.10: I noticed that the atime is only updated the 1st time the file is read, subsequent reads don't change it.(unless the ctime has changed for some other, unrelated reason) After a reboot, another read changes it again, but only once.
Generally, I found the atime information helpful, when researching why things don't work, or work differently than I had expected, e.g. using 'ls -lu' or 'stat' . As far as I can tell chattr does not have a mode argument to turn atime on (+A turns atime off) Is there another way of allowing atime updates that I have overlooked ? (other than 'touch -a' )-: - Horst (still the same guy, just moved my IT email contact from freeshell to yahoo ) Read on: ---- uname: Linux kubu910 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux FS of interest is ext3, fstab/mount options 'default' ---- Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab Options: atime / noatime / relatime (Linux-specific) ...<skip>... Through Linux 2.6.29, atime was the default; as of 2.6.30 (9 June 2009), relatime is the default.[1] ---- It looks like even if I remount an ext3 data partition as ext2 with option 'atime' I don't get what I want -- so it seems like the kernel is to blame exclusively? ---- Hal(if reading): The forinsic community must be missing true atime, too ? ---- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
