Re: noatime support in kernel?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Oct 1996 19:15:16 GMT

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> [there's also another patch for directly accessing files by their inodes...]
>

Doing this in general breaks UNIX security as we know it, so it
*definitely* would have to be a filesystem mount option.

-hpa

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