>> Dunno about wise, but maybe it might update the access time, so make sure
>> you have your root mounted noatime, I do
>>
>> mount -o remount,noatime /
>>
>> pretty early on in my /etc/rc.d/rcS.sysinit . Mount will show the change
>>
>> /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,noatime)
>>
>> The atime stuff is pretty easy to test using ls -lu to make sure it hasn't
>> been updated.
>>
>> However I _think_ stuff isn't touched.
>>
>
> Thanks for pointing out the remount. I'd just assumed jaffs2 was
> optimised to the extent it would not write atimes, never looked in
> detail to check.
Ah. You remind me. I use a ts7200 and boot from CFdisk. As you say it might
be different with a proper flash fs - no harm in checking it out though.
> ls -lu , coincindentally lu is french for read (past tense).
:-) a good way of remembering. Sometimes it's like alphabet soup when using
the far reaches of ls flag and options!
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