Re: your mail
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:06:14 +0100 (BST)
> Does this noatime patch really break POSIX conformance? I.e. does it really
> not update the atimes at all? If it doesn't, wouldn't it be better to put
> the atime updates in the kernel's disk-write cache and not flush the cache
> if there are only atime updates to be flushed?
Yes. But you are allowed in POSIX to have additional non posix features. NFS
for example is a non POSIX fs, as is the drossfs.
Alan