Re: git: 54d31cfb2789 - main - mount: document atime option

From: Devin Teske <dteske_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:49:28 UTC

> On Jan 24, 2024, at 4:38 PM, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 17:04, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'll note that, for an NFS mount, atime is not implemented. I found
>> out recently when Mike Karels asked. The NFS client does not
>> do a Setattr/atime upon every read from the buffer cache. As such,
>> the behaviour w.r.t. atime is largely undefined (and ahs been for decades)
>> and depends on the NFS server's file system configuration.
> 
> Ah, maybe I should just mirror the text from noatime, something like:
> This is the default for local file systems.

👍 +1