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by gfv 1370 days ago
No, relatime applies to how often atime is updated, while lazytime controls how often all three file timestamps (atime, mtime and ctime) are written out to disk. They are orthogonal: you can have strictatime+lazytime to have accurate atime tracking that generates no disk IO on reads. The downside is, of course, if your system crashes, the non-persisted atimes will be unreliable.