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ext4 and data consistencyext4 and data consistencyPosted May 14, 2010 15:53 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: ext4 and data consistency by anton Parent article: The Next3 filesystem
What on earth do you use atime for? Personally, the last time I ever needed to worry about atime was in the 1990s, and it was very easy to replace.
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ext4 and data consistency Posted May 15, 2010 8:36 UTC (Sat) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] I use atime to check whether some complex software really does access the files that I think it does.
ext4 and data consistency Posted May 20, 2010 19:23 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
> I use atime to check whether some complex software really does access the files that I think it does.
Wouldn't "strace -f" be handier for that kind of thing? With that you notice also a lot of other stuff that the SW does.
Strace-account script gives an overview of file accesses in the strace output:
ext4 and data consistency Posted May 21, 2010 12:04 UTC (Fri) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] It would not be handier exactly because it tells me a huge amount of other stuff the software does and that I am not interested in.
ext4 and data consistency Posted Jun 8, 2010 22:17 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Meet grep. Grep is your friend. Grep can make your life much easier. Grep is here to help you.
ext4 and data consistency Posted Jun 9, 2010 9:06 UTC (Wed) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] And how is that handier than just doing "stat <file>"?
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