linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

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Message-ID: <20070805134750.691e2e74@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:47:50 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	J??rn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, neilb@...e.de,
	dgc@....com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@...achi.com, nikita@...sterfs.com,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, yingchao.zhou@...il.com,
	richard@....demon.co.uk, david@...g.hm
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

> > 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.
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