BTW, there may be another atime mode to consider, which I believe is what Windows XP does w/ NTFS: only update the atime if it's newer than the on-disk file's atime by N seconds (defaults to one hour, but I believe it's configurable). There could be scenarios in which this mode is preferable. Erez. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html