control: severity -1 wishlist Hi,
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:56:29PM +0100, Christian Fechteler wrote: > Source: debian-reference > Version: 2.68 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > tarting with "Even simply reading a file on the Debian > system..." does not correctly reflect the behaviour of "relatime". > In the reference it is written, that also "relatime" skips the operation > (of renewing the atime-stamp of a file). So this not true for Debian > 9.x. Is this a wishlist bug to add pointer/description for "relatime". Or did I make bad explantion somewhere? ... > I have no idea how to explain this shortly, > but i was struggling many > hours to find out, how "relatime" works, > because i thought that the > updating of timestamps will be really skipped. > Skipping seems to be true only for "noatime" Did you read "man mount"? relatime Update inode access times relative to modify or change time. Access time is only updated if the previous access time was ear‐ lier than the current modify or change time. (Similar to noatime, but it 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 noatime was specified), and the 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. Is there any specific part you want to correct in D-R? Osamu
