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

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Message-ID: <20070806155919.GA21066@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:59:19 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, 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

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:39:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > 
 > * Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >  > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine 
 > >  > and notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem.
 > >  
 > > It still fails miserably for me.
 > > 
 > > If I hit 'C' and '?' I get a list of my mail folders, with some of 
 > > them marked 'N' if they have new mail.  Without atime, those N's never 
 > > show up and every mbox looks like it has no new mail.
 > 
 > does it work with the "atime on steroids" patch below? (no need to 
 > configure anything, just apply the patch and go.)

people have reported that relatime does work, but my util-linux
isn't new enough to support it, so I've never got it to work.
I'll give your diff a try later, though as it seems to be
equivalent I expect it'll work.

	Dave

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