In article
<Pine.LNX.3.93.960604223516.14149B-100000@kaliban.csoma.elte.hu>, Ingo
Molnar <mingo@kaliban.csoma.elte.hu> writes:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> [ about the "no atime update" mount option ]
>> It would probably be best implemented as an inherited ext2 attribute
>> then. Stick it on the news spool directory, and maybe those few files
>> that keep the laptop owner's disks spinning.
> i think it's the best to have it as a mount option :) it's not really good
> to extend the inode physical layout with such a thing IMHO. (though there
> is some place reserved, but it should rather be used for things like
> POSIX.6).
No, using an attribute flag is an extremely sensible way of doing it.
There is already a 32-bit word reserved for flags, and we'd only be
using one bit of this. POSIX.6 will require a separate mechanism
entirely.
Cheers,
Stephen.
--- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.