Re: NODIRATIME...great work!

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:30:40 +1000

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Shawn Leas writes:
> On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > mlord@pobox.com writes:
> > > Perry Harrington wrote:
> > >
> > > .... glories of NODIRATIME ...
> > >
> > > > Thanks, this was actually more noticable than the noatime patch.
> > >
> > > I missed the start of this.
> > >
> > > Did you patch the kernel, or is there a version of mount(8)
> > > that supports "-o nodiratime" ??
> >
> > Recent 2.1.x kernels have the MS_NODIRATIME kernel patch. mount-2.7k
> > has the "nodiratime" mount(8) patch.
>
> I have mount 2.7l, and that does not allow nodiratime. Where might I find
> that patch, or a copy of 2.7k?

Add the following line to mount_constants.h for mount-2.7k:
#define MS_NODIRATIME 2048 /* Do not update directory access times */

Regards,

Richard....

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