On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I guess I should put it another way. What if anything does readonly > have to do with O_NOATIME? Why shouldn't we always use O_NOATIME? > Why should the operating system provide atime at all? atime is useful for user-level files that are opened or modified as a direct result of actions the user took. I don't think a took like git has any reason to ever want to touch atime. -Kevin Ballard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html