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| author | Borut Mrak | 2015-08-11 02:51:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Borut Mrak | 2015-08-11 02:51:36 +0200 |
| commit | 6e73b6113b35b6a55434ca3e77ff48cc3bc43267 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a3ae01f8805face4fb40fe51789f27a18d95a24 /sys-utils/mount.8 | |
| parent | libmount: fix typo in mnt_optstr_prepend_option() (diff) | |
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mount.8: Clarify relation between noatime and nodiratime
According to https://lwn.net/Articles/245002/ and checking Linus' git master fs/inode.c it's obvious nodiratime is redundant when mounting with noatime. Clarify that in the man page.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 27839235f..4af636b59 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -863,7 +863,8 @@ mount options. .TP .B noatime Do not update inode access times on this filesystem (e.g., for faster -access on the news spool to speed up news servers). +access on the news spool to speed up news servers). This works for all +inode types (directories too), so implies nodiratime. .TP .B auto Can be mounted with the @@ -964,7 +965,8 @@ system. Update directory inode access times on this filesystem. This is the default. .TP .B nodiratime -Do not update directory inode access times on this filesystem. +Do not update directory inode access times on this filesystem. If noatime +option is set, this option is not needed. .TP .B dirsync All directory updates within the filesystem should be done synchronously. |