Hi,

On 20 Jun 2008, at 07:23, Matthew Dillon wrote:

[...] I will be making one final media change on Friday and then HAMMER development will go into testing & bug fixing mode until the release. This last media change will fix mtime and atime storage. At the moment mtime/atime updates require generating UNDO records and, needless to say, they're expensive. I will consider my options tomorrow but I think I
   am going to just not include those fields in the CRC so they can be
   updated asynchronously, without any UNDO's. [etc]


That's harmless for atime, but you really want mtime to be properly synchronised with the last data update (and to stay that way across an undo). Ideally, timestamp data records and hold mtime as a reference to the last one updated (or something like that).

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