Re: Any downside to mount -o noatime?

[Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> According to the man page for mount, relatime updates atime whenever
> mtime or ctime are updated, or if neither has been updated in the
> last 24 hours. Which is still prohibitive if you're doing an
> incremental (rsync) backup and checking file contents on the "full"
> backup weekly or monthly.

Unless you never write to the disk, that will still be lost in the noise
of writes.  But if it still bothers you, use rsync --open-noatime.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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