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Letharion
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 Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject: Can I prevent ext2 from having it's metadata updated? |
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When I do the below, you can see that "something" happens to the file.
| Code: | April ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=filesystem.bin bs=1024 count=$((64 * 1024)) 2> /dev/null
April ~ # mkfs.ext2 -F filesystem.bin &> /dev/null
April ~ # mkdir filesystem
April ~ # md5sum -b filesystem.bin
3bb094fb437027495755e9185850db1c *filesystem.bin
April ~ # mount -o loop,ro filesystem.bin filesystem; umount filesystem
April ~ # md5sum -b filesystem.bin
3bb094fb437027495755e9185850db1c *filesystem.bin
April ~ # mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime,norelatime filesystem.bin filesystem; umount filesystem
April ~ # md5sum -b filesystem.bin
867c316d61165cc99638bfa656e1dbed *filesystem.bin
April ~ # mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime,norelatime filesystem.bin filesystem; umount filesystem
April ~ # md5sum -b filesystem.bin
228af00f3b88ca36742140c24d53b3e5 *filesystem.bin
April ~ # mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime,norelatime filesystem.bin filesystem; umount filesystem
April ~ # md5sum -b filesystem.bin
801209060cbc8ee2cf1ccdaff8674c35 *filesystem.bin |
The last time of mount and the number of times the "disk" has been mounted gets updated. (Possibly more?) Is there a way of preventing this, without A) readonly and B) a kernel patch?
I know it's probably useless for practical purposes, I'm just asking for the heck of it. 
Can it be done with another FS than ext2? |
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pilla
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Please stop crossposting. Moved to dups.
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