[nylug-talk] ext3 and noatime

[Chris Knadle]

On Monday 04 February 2008, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 10:26:13 am Chris Knadle wrote:
> >    I think I realize what the 'make' problem is probably about -- it's
> > not the original 'make' that is of issue, but rather the problem of
> > modifying one of the sources and then expecting 'make' to rebuild just
> > the parts that have their corresponding sources modified since the last
> > build.  So it will probably be necessary to 'make clean' and remake the
> > full source again. [I have not tested this theory.]
>
> make uses file system time stamps and not atime.  Which makes sense being
> that make only cares for the last time a file was modified and not simply
> accessed.

   Ah hah -- yep, that makes sense.
   Now I'm trying to think what situations I'd *want* to mount with 
atime.  ;-)

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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