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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Filesystem/archive formats for WORM optical disks
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 09:54:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 09:54:50 1987
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In article <615@orcisi.UUCP>, michael@orcisi.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:
> > And then mounting /dev/worm99 read-only...

> Don't read-only Unix file systems still update last access times?

Certainly not!  The whole point is to be able to mount disks
with the WRITE PROTECT set, etc.  People have even made filesystems on
magtapes and mounted them read-only, but I doubt if they ever did it
for anything besides seeing that it could be done.

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