Documenting MS_LAZYTIME

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Thu Feb 26 18:04:09 CST 2015


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     on disk might be out of date by at most 24 hours.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



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