Once upon a time, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> 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 at cmadams.net>