On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:54 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab. > Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used: > > [simon@pici uffi]$ date > Tue Feb 2 20:48:22 CET 2010 > [simon@pici uffi]$ cat clsql-uffi-loader.lisp > /dev/null > [simon@pici uffi]$ ls -lu clsql-uffi-loader.lisp > -rw-rw-r--. 1 simon simon 2995 2010-02-02 16:24 clsql-uffi-loader.lisp > > Can it be some caching issue? If so, is there a way to force ls -lu to > show the last access time, independently of whether that involves > physical access? The last access time is the last access time is the last access time. IOW there's no concept of a "physical" access time different from what ls is showing you. Caching between RAM and the physical medium is completely transparent at this level. (I note that the file mode above includes a "." so it appears to have extended attributes, if that helps at all). poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines