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Message-ID: <20070805125649.GB22060@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:56:49 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: J??rn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8
* Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.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.
Ingo
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