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

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

From: Dave Jones <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-06 16:00:21
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:39:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > 
 > * Dave Jones [off-list ref] 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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