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Operating Systems Solaris Zfs - what does atime update? Post 302954705 by jlliagre on Thursday 10th of September 2015 09:19:50 AM
Old 09-10-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by jabberwocky
Unfortunately I cannot install the gnu utils for solaris to get stat available, due to rigid change control.
Most GNU utils are already there but GNU stat is unfortunately not part of them. Solaris ls has been extended to support some GNU options though, and they provide the information required.
Quote:
I have not come across ls -lu before; I have tried repeatedly catting the file atimetest.txt today, but that does not show any change in the ls -lu output.
I am happy to accept that the default setting for atime (=on) updates the inode data, which is something I cannot see easily, in my current setup.
Here is a test showing the access time changing on Solaris 11.2:

Code:
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r-----   1 jlliagre staff          5 Mar 20 01:20 foo
$ ls -l --full-time foo
-rw-r-----   1 jlliagre staff          5 2015-03-20 01:20:15.576863674 +0100 foo
$ ls -lu --full-time foo
-rw-r-----   1 jlliagre staff          5 2015-04-25 08:52:32.741753870 +0200 foo
$ cat foo > /dev/null
$ ls -lu --full-time foo
-rw-r-----   1 jlliagre staff          5 2015-09-10 14:59:57.582793533 +0200 foo

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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	 Options:
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OPTIONS

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	 foo-1.1-gcc32-pgm will be replaced.
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	 foo-1.1-vendorcc32-pgm will B<not> be replaced. Wrong flavor.
	 foo-1.1-gcc32-pgm_static will B<not> be replaced. Wrong package type
	 foo-2.2-gcc32-pgm_static will B<not> be replaced. Wrong package type

       For the command:

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	 foo-2.2-gcc32-pgm will be replaced.
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	 foo-1.1-gcc32-pgm_static will B<not> be replaced. Wrong package type
	 foo-2.2-gcc32-pgm_static will B<not> be replaced. Wrong package type

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	 foo-1.1-gcc32-pgm will be replaced.
	 foo-2.2-gcc32-pgm will B<not> be replaced. It is newer.
	 foo-1.1-vendorcc32-pgm will be replaced.
	 foo-1.1-gcc32-pgm_static will be replaced.
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	 foo-2.2-gcc32-pgm will be replaced.
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BUGS

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	 foo-1.1-5-gcc32-pgm_static will be replaced.
	 foo-2.1-1-gcc32-pgm_static will be replaced.
	 foo-2.1-5-gcc32-pgm_static will be replaced.
	 foo-2.2-1-gcc32-pgm_static will not be replaced.
	 foo-2.1-gcc32-pgm will not be replaced.

SEE ALSO

       gpt-uninstall(1) gpt-query(1) gpt-verify(1)

AUTHOR

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