Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make relatime default

Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09T21:31:23Z

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> Well, stat() syscall no longer returns sane value in st_atime, while
> all the userland stayed the same; only kernel changed. I believe that
> is ABI change.

No.

If you want the old abi, use "strictatime" in your /etc/fstime.

No ABI changed. Just the default mount options changed to be what most
people (especially non-specialists) would likely want.

Deal with it.

Linus