* Alan Cox [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

quoted

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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