Subject: bin/3304: Mount option missing from mount command.
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/08/1997 12:25:25
>Number: 3304
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Mount option missing from mount command.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 8 03:35:02 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lennart Augustsson
>Organization:
Department of Computing Science, Chalmers University
>Release: NetBSD-current 97-03-07
>Environment:
System: NetBSD calvin.cs.chalmers.se 1.2C NetBSD 1.2C (CALVIN) #112: Sat Mar 8 00:06:18 MET 1997 augustss@calvin.cs.chalmers.se:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CALVIN i386
>Description:
The mount option MNT_NOATIME that avoids updating the
access time for files is not available from the mount command.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just check the code and man page.
>Fix:
Apply this patch:
*** sbin/mount/mount.c.old Sat Mar 8 12:16:08 1997
--- sbin/mount/mount.c Sat Mar 8 12:17:14 1997
***************
*** 99,104 ****
--- 99,105 ----
{ MNT_ROOTFS, 1, "root file system" },
{ MNT_SYNCHRONOUS, 0, "synchronous" },
{ MNT_UNION, 0, "union" },
+ { MNT_NOATIME, 0, "noatime" },
{ NULL }
};
*** sbin/mount/mount.8.old Sat Mar 8 12:16:13 1997
--- sbin/mount/mount.8 Sat Mar 8 12:20:26 1997
***************
*** 128,133 ****
--- 128,136 ----
.Fl f ;
forces the revocation of write access when trying to downgrade
a filesystem mount status from read-write to read-only.
+ .It noatime
+ Never update the access time field for files. Only available for
+ the ``ffs'' file system.
.It nodev
Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system.
This option is useful for a server that has file systems containing
>Audit-Trail:
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