On 2002-02-10 10:09 -0800, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2002, Paul Ackersviller wrote: > > Sorry for chiming in late on this, but it sounds an lot like what I > > saw once when I tried a performance tweak on one of my filesystems. > > Some filesystems have a mount option noatime to not update file access > > times -- needless to say this is not normal and you should know what > > you're doing before trying this. You would want to make sure you're > > not using any software that depends on access times, e.g. mutt! > > > > Is it possible the filesystem in question has this behaviour? > > Would I see that in the fstab options? If so, the nfs mount is simply > set with options 'defaults'. And this doesn't always happen, so > that's why it's hard to troubleshoot, you know?
Yes, look for noatime in /etc/fstab (or /etc/mtab or /proc/mount or `mount`). You'll have to look in both fstabs (the NFS server's and your machine's). -- André Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
