RE: [Nautilus-list] nautilus always stat64() /etc/mtab

["Tom Musgrove" <TomM pentstar com>]

Well, if someone wants to contact him, it is

Stephen C. Tweedie (kernel @ duct dot dhs dot org)

dot = .

Tom M.
TomM Pentstar com

-----Original Message-----
From: nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com
[mailto:nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com]On Behalf Of Havoc
Pennington
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:09 PM
To: Maciej Stachowiak
Cc: Eric Wood; nautilus-list lists eazel com
Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus always stat64() /etc/mtab



Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> On 27Nov2001 03:15PM (-0500), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > "Eric Wood" <eric interplas com> writes:
> > > nautilus wants to constantly monitor /etc/mtab to see if something
> > > automount.  However this function keeps the hard drives spinning,
battery
> > > life low, and ext3 continually flushing the journals.
> > >
> > > Stephen Tweddie (author of ext3) says to use some other function (I
don't
> > > know what it is) that does the same thing as stat64() but lets the
drives
> > > spin down when not really used.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> >
> > My memory of what Stephen said is that Nautilus should hold mtab open
> > instead of opening/closing it over and over. I'm not sure I remember
> > correctly though.
>
> I hate to do this by guessing. Does anyone know where I could find a
> list of which system calls update atime and which don't?
>

If I was non-lazy I'd just find Stephen's mail. ;-)

Havoc


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