On 02/26/2015 02:31 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 09:49:39AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> How about somethign like "This mount significantly reduces writes
>>> needed to update the inode's timestamps, especially mtime and actime.
>>
>> What is "actime" in the preceding line? Should it be "ctime"?
>
> Sorry, no, it should be "atime".
Thanks.
>> I find the wording of there a little confusing. Is the following
>> a correct rewrite:
>>
>> The advantage of MS_STRICTATIME | MS_LAZYTIME is that stat(2)
>> will return the correctly updated atime, but the atime updates
>> will be flushed to disk only when (1) the inode needs to be
>> updated for filesystem / data consistency reasons or (2) the
>> inode is pushed out of memory, or (3) the filesystem is
>> unmounted.)
>
> Yes, that's correct. The only other thing I might add is that in the
> case of a crash, the atime (or mtime) fields on disk might be out of
> date by at most 24 hours.
So in other words, add a sentence to that last para:
The disadvantage of MS_STRICTATIME | MS_LAZYTIME is that
in the case of a system crash, the atime and mtime fields
on disk might be out of date by at most 24 hours.
Right?
Cheers,
Michael
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