On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:35:13PM +0000, Silas S. Brown wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: N/A; reported 2005-03-09 > Severity: normal > > popularity-contest reports the atime (access time) of files in packages, but > if you mount your disk with noatime option (if you want to reduce the number > of disk writes in order to use a solid-state drive or noflushd) then this > information will be wrong. > > It would be better for popularity-contest to test if the disk is mounted > with noatime (check in /proc/mounts or wherever) and if so to report this. > Then the developers can decide whether they want to include those machines > or not and if yes then how.
Hello all, With current kernel, you can use relatime which is compatible with popcon according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stat_(system_call)> (sorry I did not find a better reference). Since there is not much more we can do, I close this bug. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
