On Nov 14 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The significance of "setting the atime" will depend on the mount options > of the file system in question. On Debian 11, a file system of type ext4 > which is mounted with "defaults" (as specified in fstab) includes the > "relatime" option. Which is documented thus:
AFAIK the "relatime" option has only an effect when the atime update is triggered as a side effect of reading a file. Explicit inode modifications via utime et.al. are always carried out independent of that option. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."