From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Documenting MS_LAZYTIME Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:04:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20150227000409.GC17174@thunk.org> References: <54E7578E.4090809@redhat.com> <20150221025636.GB7922@thunk.org> <54EEDE23.6080009@gmail.com> <20150226133113.GD11217@thunk.org> <54EF2161.90607@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Sandeen , Ext4 Developers List , Linux btrfs Developers List , XFS Developers , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Linux-Fsdevel , Linux API To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54EF2161.90607@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 02:36:33PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > The disadvantage of MS_STRICTATIME | MS_LAZYTIME is that > in the case of a system crash, the atime and mtime fields > on disk might be out of date by at most 24 hours. I'd change to "The disadvantage of MS_LAZYTIME is that..." and perhaps move that so it's clear it applies to any use of MS_LAZYTIME has this as a downside. Does that make sense? - Ted