On Tuesday, 29 August 2023 03:56:55 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
The problem is, most Debian systems are set up to mount the core file
systems with "relatime". This means you don't have a record of the
last time each file was accessed, so you can't ask the computer which
files were most recently opened.
hm...
i was curious about that and read the man page for 'mount(8)', in section
FILESYSTEM-INDEPENDENT MOUNT OPTIONS i found the following:
relatime
Update inode access times relative to modify or change time.
Access time is only updated if the previous access time was
earlier than the current modify or change time. [...]
so my understanding is, that access time is indeed updated if 'relatime' is
used as a mount option. to prevent updating access times 'noatime' should
be used.
i am happy to be corrected if i should be wrong...
