Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:56:49 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > we can move from atime to noatime by default on FC8 with > > > appropriate release note warnings and having a couple of betas to > > > find out what other than mutt goes boom. > > > > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine and > > notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem. > > Configuration dependant, and also mutt and the shell will misreport > new mail with noatime on the mail spool. The shell should probably use > inotify of course but that change has to be made.
just to quote from this same email thread:
| I too use mutt and noatime,nodiratime everywhere (same 10 year-old | thinko), and the only side effect is that when I have a new mail, it | is reported in all of my xterms until I read it, clearly something I | can live with (and sometimes it's even desirable). | | In fact, mutt is pretty good at this. It updates atime and ctime | itself as soon as it opens the mbox, so the shell is happy and only | reports "you have mail" afterwards.
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