From bea81f010ca95f25d66e492a93e258516f52799f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:08:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mount: more explicitly explain 'strictatime' in mount.8 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- mount/mount.8 | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 4e1b572d..503442db 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -704,7 +704,9 @@ All I/O to the filesystem should be done asynchronously. (See also the option.) .TP .B atime -Update inode access time for each access. This is the default. +Update inode access time for each access. See also the +.B strictatime +mount option. .TP .B noatime Do not update inode access times on this filesystem (e.g, for faster @@ -840,12 +842,18 @@ since the last time it was modified.) .B norelatime Do not use .B relatime -feature (e.g, for systems where the feature is enabled by default, for -more details see mount options in /proc/mounts). +feature. See also the +.B strictatime +mount option. .TP .B strictatime -Update inode access times whenever a file is accessed. Disables noatime and -.B relatime. +Allows to explicitly requesting full atime updates. This makes it +possible for kernel to defaults to +.B relatime +or +.B noatime +but still allow userspace to override it. For more details about the default +system mount options see /proc/mounts. .TP .B nostrictatime Use the kernel's default behaviour for inode access time updates. -- 2.39.5