[Gllug] what is causing disk activity ?

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:04:14PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:

> Out of curiosity, does reading the last access time of a file update the access
> time of that file?  and if so, does it update before or after the atime is read?

No it doesn't update the access time.

Hmmm: I ought to publish my inode command.

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