> [S]oft updates are sufficiently clever that you can
> 	create a directory
> 	create files in that directory
> 	modify the files
> 	remove the files
> 	remove the directory
> and have *NO DISK ACTIVITY AT ALL*.

How do you avoid an inode write for the mtime/ctime on the parent of
the created (and later deleted) directory?  (And its contents, for ffs,
since creating and deleting a subdirectory does modify the (containing)
directory's contents.)

					der Mouse

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