On 2023-08-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > It's changed *only* under the specific circumstance where the file has > been modified since it was last read. If the file hasn't been written to > (or metadata changed), atime isn't updated.
Michael is right : atime is modified if it's "ealier" so you always get the latest access time as modify and create obviously need access. Here I set noatime to disable access time and also lazytime to speed writes.