Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <20040614224006.GD1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> superuser). The only thing O_NOATIME gains is the absence of a race
> condition where another program can read the file without it being noted
> in the atime.

And it will not dirty the inode, which is a fairly big saving for filesystem
scanning tools.

Greetings
Bernd
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