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Re: [Sheflug] Disabling Access Time

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From: Rob Andrews <rob [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:34:18 +0100
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[13-Sep-2003 20:24.27 (BST) / Darrell Blake]
 > Wondering if someone can shed some light on this for me. What exactly is 
 > atime? Apparently you can gain a slight speed increase by disabling access 
 > time in /etc/fstab. My current line looks like..
 > /dev/hda7        /                reiserfs    defaults,noatime 1   1

'atime' is the time the file was last accessed. There are three timestamps
the filesystem keeps - atime, ctime (created time), mtime (modified time).
You can display these with stat(1).

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