From 5eab76af774fd5a38ab7582b1efc76b600ab334b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:35:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mount.2: Tweak MS_LAZYTIME text Reported-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/mount.2 | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2 index d864a573b..721232554 100644 --- a/man2/mount.2 +++ b/man2/mount.2 @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ an undeleted inode is evicted from memory; or more than 24 hours have passed since the inode was written to disk. .RE .IP -This mount significantly reduces writes +This mount option significantly reduces writes needed to update the inode's timestamps, especially mtime and atime. However, in the event of a system crash, the atime and mtime fields on disk might be out of date by up to 24 hours. @@ -188,10 +188,7 @@ mount option is also enabled. is that .BR 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.) +will be flushed to disk only in the cases listed above.) .TP .B MS_MANDLOCK Permit mandatory locking on files in this filesystem.