[Popcon-developers] Bug#298760: popularity-contest: Gives inaccurate information when disk is mounted with noatime option

[Silas S. Brown]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: N/A; reported 2005-03-09
Severity: normal

popularity-contest reports the atime (access time) of files in packages, but
if you mount your disk with noatime option (if you want to reduce the number
of disk writes in order to use a solid-state drive or noflushd) then this
information will be wrong.

It would be better for popularity-contest to test if the disk is mounted
with noatime (check in /proc/mounts or wherever) and if so to report this.
Then the developers can decide whether they want to include those machines
or not and if yes then how.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux beethoven 2.4.23 #19 Thu Feb 26 17:33:46 GMT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB