pass / gnupg is caching?

Björn Persson Bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Thu Jan 8 16:40:45 CET 2026


Matthias Apitz wrote:
> i.e. the 2nd time does not modify the read access time of the file. Why?

Is your filesystem perchance mounted with the "relatime" option?

Writing a timestamp to the disk every time a file is read from the cache
turned out to be bad for performance, and bad for the longevity of SSDs,
so that's often omitted these days.

Björn Persson
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