On 05/11/12 13:24, Arjen Lentz wrote:

> Unless you want to do auditing of read-access, atime is just not relevant.

Not having it updated can break some user space apps like Mutt, so
relatime was seen to be a way of reducing the impact of atime (and
stopping laptop drives spinning up unnecessarily) without breaking those
apps.

cheers,
Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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