<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Doesn't relatime still update the time if the file is 1 day old (regardless of modication time), and the current tmpfiles wipes files that are older by 10 days? > Since Linux 2.6.30, the kernel defaults to the behavior provided by this option (unless <code class="literal">noatime</code> was specified), and the <code class="literal">strictatime</code> option is required to obtain traditional semantics. In addition, since Linux 2.6.30, the file's last access time is always updated if it is more than 1 day old. > > <cite class="_Rm"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman8/">http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman8/</a>mount.8.html</cite> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/04/2015 10:22 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:20150429102226.GA8176@gardel-login" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 29.04.15 22:08, Roger Qiu (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:roger.qiu@polycademy.com">roger.qiu@polycademy.com</a>) wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Lennart, So there really isn't a fast of way just checking if a file has an open file descriptor on it? Sometimes atime is on relatime, so it only gets updated if modification is earlier. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Using relatime is fine, except for /tmp and /var/tmp really. Setting the flag for those file systems is really a poor choice, since it breaks "aging" things there... Lennart </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Founder of Matrix AI <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://matrix.ai/">http://matrix.ai/</a> +61420925975</pre> </body> </html>