Subject: Re: 'noatime' bogosity
To: None <tech-misc@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 06/22/1999 13:34:43
In article <199906220131.VAA21550@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>,
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>>> Just curious; are you _sure_ it's not working?
>>
>>Same here on 1.4_BETA/arm32. I "mount -u -o noatime /dev/wd0a /", and
>>"mount" doesn't show anything.
>
>Ah, I see the problem.  There isn't enough room returned by the call
>that displays the mount flags to display the noatime flag, but it _is_
>set and it does work.
>
>Well, let me rephrase it ... I have verified that it works on my systems,
>and I believe that it still works (but I haven't verified it).  Certainly
>a little poking around with ls should answer this question?

1 We need a new statfs syscall that has enough space for all the flags.
2 We need to have hooks so that we can get filesystem specific options
  (like nfsv2 vs. v3 etc.)

If someone wants to take the project and write a proposal on how to do
(2).

christos