Package: debsums Version: 2.0.41 Severity: wishlist
Please use O_NOATIME when opening files for checksumming. This will increase performance, and it will help people who use atime to determine when a program was last executed (like popularity-contest). "man 2 open" says: O_NOATIME (Since Linux 2.6.8) Do not update the file last access time (st_atime in the inode) when the file is read(2). This flag is intended for use by indexing or backup programs, where its use can significantly reduce the amount of disk activity. "indexing or backup programs" sounds just like debsums to me :-). Regards //Johan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debsums depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.25 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction debsums recommends no packages. debsums suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * debsums/croncheck: weekly debsums/apt-autogen: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org