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Message-ID: <54F55F40.6010508@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:14:08 +0100
From:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
CC:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux btrfs Developers List <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	XFS Developers <xfs@....sgi.com>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting MS_LAZYTIME

On 02/27/2015 06:51 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 09:01:10AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 02/27/2015 01:04 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>> 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     on disk might be out of date by at most 24 hours.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?
>>
>> Thanks, Ted. Got it. So, now we have:
>>
>>        MS_LAZYTIME (since Linux 3.20)
> 
> "since Linux 4.0".

D'oh! Yes, thanks. Fixed.

Cheers,

Michael


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