Re: Per process mount options?

Jeff Morriss (morriss@cs.buffalo.edu)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:11:48 -0400 (EDT)

I hate to respond to my own mail, but I'd also hate to allow this
pre-first-cup-of-coffee ignorance remain out there... Please ignore my
previous posting... I don't know what I was thinking.

Humbly,
-J

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Jeff Morriss wrote:

>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> > Morning guys,
> >
> > I don't remember if this has been discussed before, but what about per
> > process mount options?
> >
> > I just watched our backup system blaze over the fs and thought how nice it
> > would be if I could enable no_atime for tar, so it really would just read
> > instead of consuming huge resources because it has to update no_atime for
> > gazillion files.
>
>
> milliways [~/]> tar --help | grep atime
> --atime-preserve don't change access times on dumped files
>
>
> That is, BTW, GNU tar... Of course, if you want to use something besides
> 'tar', that's a different story.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -J

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