[Popcon-developers] Bug#298760: popularity-contest: Gives inaccurate information when disk is mounted with noatime option

[Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)]

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. <ballombe at debian.org>

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