On 07/08/11 10:27, Eric Blake wrote: > if O_NOATIME is 0, --noatime should be rejected as an outright > impossibility. > > if O_NOATIME is non-zero, --noatime should enable FTS_NOATIME, but only > as a best-effort (that is, the option is silently ignored where the > kernel is too old),
If --noatime is silently ignored in the latter case, shouldn't it also be silently ignored in the former? That would be more consistent across platforms.