diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
index faa7aa94..250b945e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ Other changes:
 * Now requires CMake 3.6 or later
 
 New features:
-* Add support for atime mount options (noatime, strictatime, relatime, atime, nodiratime). As before, relatime is the default.
+* Add support for atime mount options (noatime, strictatime, relatime, atime, nodiratime).
+* The default is atime behavior is now *noatime* (in 0.10.x is was relatime).
+  Noatime reduces the amount of write necessary and with that reduces the probability for synchronization conflicts
+  or corrupted file systems if a power outage happens while writing.
 * Add an --immediate flag to cryfs-unmount that tries to unmount immediately and doesn't wait for processes to release their locks on the file system.
 
 
diff --git a/src/fspp/fuse/Fuse.cpp b/src/fspp/fuse/Fuse.cpp
index 758d660b..ac976080 100644
--- a/src/fspp/fuse/Fuse.cpp
+++ b/src/fspp/fuse/Fuse.cpp
@@ -371,8 +371,8 @@ void Fuse::_createContext(const vector<string> &fuseOptions) {
     const bool has_strictatime_flag = fuseOptions.end() != std::find(fuseOptions.begin(), fuseOptions.end(), "strictatime");
     const bool has_nodiratime_flag = fuseOptions.end() != std::find(fuseOptions.begin(), fuseOptions.end(), "nodiratime");
 
-    // Default is RELATIME
-    _context = Context(relatime());
+    // Default is NOATIME, this reduces the probability for synchronization conflicts
+    _context = Context(noatime());
 
     if (has_noatime_flag) {
         ASSERT(!has_atime_flag, "Cannot have both, noatime and atime flags set.");
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ void Fuse::_createContext(const vector<string> &fuseOptions) {
         ASSERT(!has_atime_flag, "This shouldn't happen, or we would have hit a case above");
         ASSERT(!has_relatime_flag, "This shouldn't happen, or we would have hit a case above");
         ASSERT(!has_strictatime_flag, "This shouldn't happen, or we would have hit a case above");
-        _context->setTimestampUpdateBehavior(nodiratime_relatime()); // use relatime by default
+        _context->setTimestampUpdateBehavior(noatime()); // use noatime by default
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/fspp/fuse/TimestampTest.cpp b/test/fspp/fuse/TimestampTest.cpp
index 71e5dc43..3d6c5ca6 100644
--- a/test/fspp/fuse/TimestampTest.cpp
+++ b/test/fspp/fuse/TimestampTest.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ typedef FuseTest FuseTimestampTest;
 
 TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithoutAnyAtimeFlag_thenHasRelatimeBehavior) {
     auto fs = TestFS({});
-    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::relatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
+    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::noatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
 }
 
 TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNoatimeFlag_thenHasNoatimeBehavior) {
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithAtimeFlag_thenHasRelatimeBehavior) {
     EXPECT_EQ(fspp::relatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
 }
 
-TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeFlag_thenHasNodiratimeRelatimeBehavior) {
+TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeFlag_thenHasNoatimeBehavior) {
+    // note: this behavior is correct because "noatime" is default and adding "nodiratime" doesn't change anything.
     auto fs = TestFS({"-o", "nodiratime"});
-    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::nodiratime_relatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
+    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::noatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
 }
 
 
@@ -302,12 +303,14 @@ TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeStrictatimeFlag_withSeparateFl
     EXPECT_EQ(fspp::nodiratime_strictatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
 }
 
-TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeNodiratimeFlag_withCsv_thenHasNodiratimeRelatimeBehavior) {
+TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeNodiratimeFlag_withCsv_thenHasNoatimeBehavior) {
+    // note: this behavior is correct because "noatime" is default and adding "nodiratime" doesn't change anything.
     auto fs = TestFS({"-o", "nodiratime,nodiratime"});
-    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::nodiratime_relatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
+    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::noatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
 }
 
-TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeNodiratimeFlag_withSeparateFlags_thenHasNodiratimeRelatimeBehavior) {
+TEST_F(FuseTimestampTest, whenCalledWithNodiratimeNodiratimeFlag_withSeparateFlags_thenHasNoatimeBehavior) {
+    // note: this behavior is correct because "noatime" is default and adding "nodiratime" doesn't change anything.
     auto fs = TestFS({"-o", "nodiratime", "-o", "nodiratime"});
-    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::nodiratime_relatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
+    EXPECT_EQ(fspp::noatime().get(), context().timestampUpdateBehavior().get());
 }