Re: 4.3.4-dev-4 and 4.2.6-dev-2 available

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:44:41 +0200
Ismail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tuesday 11 December 2007 18:39:12 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız:

(That can't be the Turkish for "Bart said", can it?  Just wondered...)

> > It's possible to mount an ext3 filesystem in a mode that does not do
> > an access time updates.  This is supposed to make the filesystem
> > respond much more quickly.
> 
> Mounted with noatime indeed! Thats the problem then.

For now, we'd better indicate the problem.

Index: Test/C02cond.ztst
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Test/C02cond.ztst,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 C02cond.ztst
--- Test/C02cond.ztst	11 Dec 2007 15:24:47 -0000	1.18
+++ Test/C02cond.ztst	13 Dec 2007 21:09:06 -0000
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@
 F:This test can fail on NFS-mounted filesystems as the access and
 F:modification times are not updated separately.  The test will fail
 F:on HFS+ (Apple Mac OS X default) filesystems because access times
-F:are not recorded. This does not indicate a problem in the shell.
+F:are not recorded.  Also, Linux ext3 filesystems may be mounted
+F:with the noatime option which does not update access times.
+F:Failures in these cases do not indicate a problem in the shell.
 
   [[ newnewnew -nt zerolength && ! (unmodified -nt zerolength) ]]
 0:-nt cond


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