Thread (170 messages) 170 messages, 32 authors, 2007-08-16

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

From: Dave Jones <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-05 18:51:12
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:21:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > * Alan Cox [off-list ref] wrote:
 > 
 > > With a Red Hat on if we can move from /dev/hda to /dev/sda in FC7 then 
 > > 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.
 
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.

	Dave

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