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  2. PTL-8176

RH442-110: Precise wording about atime and relatime

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    • RH442 - RHEL 8 1 20190828
    • RH442 - RHEL 7 2 20150420
    • RH442
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      Language: en-US (English)|
      Workaround: IMHO: remove "ext4 or"

      Description: We need more precise wording in this:

      If mail is stored on an ext4 or ext3 file system, disabling access time updates can eliminate many write requests to the disk. On ext3, atime updates are enabled by default, causing a write to disk every single time a file is opened for read or write. Both ext4 and XFS mount their file systems with the relatime mount option by default.

      If ext4 use relatime by default, so why we want to disable it (first sentance).
      If relatime on ext4 produce "many write requests to the disk", why we not mantion XFS - is XFS behave better with relatime then ext4 with relatime?

              rht-aandrade Adrian Andrade (Inactive)
              atis4it Artur Szymczak (Inactive)
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