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authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2010-11-16 10:17:02 +0100
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2010-11-16 10:17:02 +0100
commitd50da32777d88d0c1f25e3a131409302bef846ff (patch)
treeadd07bb52c37710951de8ce58aa1462a5726d483 /mount
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downloadutil-linux-old-d50da32777d88d0c1f25e3a131409302bef846ff.tar.gz
mount: update relatime description in mount.8
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653705 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount')
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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