[daneel_w]

Also: a lot of OS distributions aimed at SBCs with microSD storage forgetting to set noatime/relatime on their file systems, to avoid thousands upon thousands of writes for access time updates whenever files are read. It's only just recently that OS vendors finally woke up and realized what was going on.

[megous]

relatime is default option since forever. (certainly since before rpi was even a thing)

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.30/source/fs/namespace... (some random old kernel)

[daneel_w]

That's good info and news to me. "relatime" is unfortunately a silent killer as well, albeit nowhere near as intense as "strictatime".