-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-04-23 at 18:44 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I often use the modification date, sometimes the creation date, but I have never needed to use the access time. And as for dirs, simply by listing a dir that time is modified.
So be it.
But if you need to find files knowing that you read them at a time certain (or approximate), then the Unix "access time" is what you need.
Maybe... but then, some times I grep on all my home dir, so they all would have the same date. Now, there is beagle, that I suppose does some of that as well. Then, I restored a full backup after a disaster last February, so all that time info years old would have been deleted anyway... I mean, none of those stamps show real access dates. Not when "I" accessed them, anyway. I enabled noatime (ie, disable that timestamp) around two years ago, I think, but I forgot nodiratime: I'm activating that now, too. I prefer disk speed over that small info I don't use. I might use it, but... haven't found a good use for it yet, so off it goes :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGLWeBtTMYHG2NR9URAp7eAJ0VkhVR0IKI7M/pGtQrfblopFogPwCfS5eM jOtOnrREW+9DoDXUM0vyK2g= =Wvkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org