On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 05:32:05PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: >--On Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:03 PM -0500 Matthew Miller ><mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > >> relatime has been the default for a long time -- that only updates atime >> once per some reasonable timeperiod. The wear and tear from that is >> negligible and you can still get a basic idea of when files where >> accessed. > >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. > >The only apps I've found that need atime are tmpwatch and biff, neither of >which I use. atime updates that occur when {m,c}time are updated add no additional burden. So you are concerned about a single "possible" inode update once a day? jl -- Jon H. LaBadie jcu at labadie.us