On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:17:13AM -0700, Liberty Young wrote: > A customer of mine for our embedded products was relating to me his > worries about using Compact Flash with Linux. He claimed that Linux (in > ext2, ext3, possibly others) filesystems, when mounted read/write, will > write to the filesystem every-time a file is read, in order to update > some time-stamp (atime?) I don't believe him, but since I wasn't sure, i > couldn't argue with this. Is this true? Yes, unless you mount the filesystem in noatime mode. greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
