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authorWayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>2020-07-04 10:23:17 -0700
committerWayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>2020-07-04 10:28:38 -0700
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Don't turn off the user's open-noatime unless the module is forcing the value.
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@@ -426,13 +426,20 @@ the values of parameters. See the GLOBAL PARAMETERS section for more details.
0. `open noatime`
- This parameter tells the rsync daemon to open files with the O_NOATIME flag
+ When set to True, this parameter tells the rsync daemon to open files with
+ the O_NOATIME flag
(on systems that support it) to avoid changing the access time of the files
that are being transferred. If your OS does not support the O_NOATIME flag
then rsync will silently ignore this option. Note also that some
filesystems are mounted to avoid updating the atime on read access even
without the O_NOATIME flag being set.
+ When set to False, this parameters ensures that files on the server are not
+ opened with O_NOATIME.
+
+ When set to Unset (the default) the user controls the setting via
+ `--open-noatime`.
+
0. `list`
This parameter determines whether this module is listed when the client