From d50da32777d88d0c1f25e3a131409302bef846ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:17:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mount: update relatime description in mount.8 Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653705 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- mount/mount.8 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index a6566b00..8b09de86 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -907,6 +907,15 @@ time is only updated if the previous access time was earlier than the current modify or change time. (Similar to noatime, but doesn't break mutt or other applications that need to know if a file has been read since the last time it was modified.) + +Since Linux 2.6.30, the kernel defaults to the behavior provided by this +option (unless +.B noatime +was specified), and the +.B strictatime +option is required to obtain traditional semantics. In addition, since Linux +2.6.30, the file's last access time is always updated if it is more than 1 +day old. .TP .B norelatime Do not use -- 2.39.5