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Thanks for sharing... from the mount man pages....
relatime
Update inode access times relative to modify or change time. Access time is only updated if the previous access time was earlier than the current modify
or change time. (Similar to noatime, but it doesn't break mutt or other applications that need to know if a file has been read since the last time it was
modified.)
Since Linux 2.6.30, the kernel defaults to the behavior provided by this option (unless noatime was specified), and the strictatime 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.
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by default it seems the linux kernel already does very little writing... unless using atime... So, I am not sure what the delta between noatime and relatime is.
Thanks for sharing the info Petrus