Solaris

Hi Gurus,

I mount a filesystem with -o noatime option to avoid getting the recording of time into the inode, however as on when i am doing any chnage in any file create in this file system the timestamp of the file is changing, whcih i can see with ls -l .

What can be the reason ?

i mount the file system like below

# mount -o noatime /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s6 /adminusers

Please suggest

According to ls man page to display file's access time you need to use -u option:

ls -lu

I'm afraid you are misunderstanding both the purpose of the noatime mount option and how to look at a file access time with ls.

Access time can be seen with the "ls -lu" command, not "ls -l".
Modifying a file is something that will update file timestamp(s) regardless of the noatime option.

Thanks jlliagre !

Can you please help me in understanding the use of noatime option with mount ?

The -noatime option (no access time) will tell the OS not to update the file access timestamps when files are accessed (i.e. read).