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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:38:40 -0500
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org,  dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 54d31cfb2789 - main - mount: document atime option
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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.



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