OK, the short answer is mount option
strictatime
which I had simply overlooked.
Thanks.
It also works fine with 'mount -o remount,strictatime /dev/sdXN' w/o messing
with fstab
- Horst
- Original Message
From: Bob Miller
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
Sent: Wed, April 1
Horst, your filesystem is probably mounted with the "noatime" or
"relatime" mount option.
Check /etc/fstab. Linux distributions have been converting over to
"noatime" for several
years. The atime updates require significant disk bandwidth, and most
software doesn't
care.
See the mount(8) man pag
kubuntu 9.10: I noticed that the atime is only updated the 1st time the file is
read, subsequent reads don't change it.(unless the ctime has changed for some
other, unrelated reason)
After a reboot, another read changes it again, but only once.
Generally, I found the atime information helpful, w
