On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> AFS doesn't store access times. The mtime, ctime and atime fields of
> the stat structure are all filled in with the mtime. Any programs that
> rely on the difference between access and modification times are going to
> behave strangely when working on files in AFS. I believe there is an
> official writeup from Transarc on this.
This line of thought just brought up a question that's been in my head for
awhile -- Some OS's have an option on mounting their native filesystem
that turns off 'atime' updates. Does AFS use the native filesystem's
'atime' for anything in particular? I would assume that one would remove
a bit of a load from a filesystem by needing to update atime's on read
operations, and henseget a little performance boost...
-rob
