Once upon a time, Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com> said: > Sadly this turns out not to be the case, at least if I'm reading > fs/pipe.c correctly. O_NOATIME will turn off atime updates, but mtime > and ctime are still modified on every pipe write, and there's no such > thing as O_NOCMTIME even though the filesystem layer does have the > concept internally. Which means device-backed filesystems will see > write traffic just for using named pipes. > > Heck of lame. Someone should fix that.
The behavior follows the standard, so it shouldn't just be changed by default without checking if anybody uses the standard behavior. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
