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- From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Linux file systems
- References: <1993Jan19.195615.29334@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:45:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.144546.2642@umibox.hanse.de>
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- qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) writes:
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- >sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) wrote:
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- >>Currently, of all the linux file systems around, only the newextfs
- >>supports separate atime/ctime/mtime. If the Linux community is going
- >>to adopt a new file system as a standard Linux FS, we will only get
- >>the one chance at it, so fully supporting inode times seems essential.
- >>There seems to be little justification in crippling a new file system
- >>with a single inode timestamp. (OK, maybe that was put a little
- >>strongly; I just feel that any attempt at a real high-performance file
- >>system has got to pay attention to these details.)
-
- >That is not a bit issue too. atime/ctime can be added with a couple
- >of lines of code if I would want to. Have you heard complain ?
-
- Yeah!!!! Well, maybe they weren't heard, but then, I just wondered why I
- couldn't get my scripts going, ad didn't think there was something missing
- from the fs. I DEFINITLY want these multiple times! If it's easy, please add
- it.
-
- Bernie
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