Re: add dd support for O_NOATIME

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> How about if we suggest instead that laptop owners mount their file
>>> systems with the noatime option?  That solves the problem in general,
>>> rather than forcing app writers to modify cat, ls, sh, etc.
>>
>> It'd be ok if there were a noatime mount option that applied only to
>> directories.
>
> That's the "nodiratime" option of mount(8), on recent-enough Linux
> kernels that support it.  I hope that suffices.

And here I searched carefully through mount(8) (it's not there,
at least not on Debian unstable) thinking that'd be authoritative enough.
Should have googled.

That does the trick for me.
Thanks!