On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 04:26, Eric Wood wrote: > Grodon is right. I complained about this a year ago, how can a linux hard drive ever > go into power saving mode when keep stat()ing /etc/mtab. There is another stat() > which should have been used by Nautilus that doesn't change the atime of a file > (according to the author of the ext filesystem, Steven Tweedie). Nautilus should > have been using that other function or switch to using fam. Fam does not access > the disk itself, it tells a subscribing program that a certain file has changed. > I have no idea why the nautilus guys haven't fix this. Maybe because they are "buried in bug reports" and have more to do? Anyway, I didn't find a report on bugzilla.gnome.org nor on bugzilla.redhat.com, so you might file a bug or 2... -- Klaasjan Brand <kjb@xxxxxx>
