Hello again! Dave Kleikamp [Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:00:01AM -0600]: > > > > [mutt] > > > > 2. When using mutt with reiser or xfs, it reacts differently when I have > > > > a mailbox opened: With jfs new messages are _not_ automatically > > > > shown. > > > > With reiser or xfs, mutt seems to get notified, when the current > > > > directory (Maildir/new) gets a new mail. > > > > > > > > Is that a problem of > > > > a) dnotify > > > > b) inotify > > > > c) mutt? > > > > > > I don't know about this. jfs doesn't do anything special to support > > > dnotify or inodify. They are implemented in the vfs. There may be > > > something that jfs is failing to do that I'm not aware of. This is > > > going to take some investigation. I will put it on my todo list, but > > > would appreciate it if anyone out there wants to look into this. > > > > Are there any news? > > Originally, I thought the problem may have been explained by this post > by Peter Grandi: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13136173
Oh, didn't see that. Guys, could you CC me the next time, please? But no, that was not the problem: I copied my whole /home to another partition and mounted that as /home to test. Currently I am using jfs on top of dm-crypt for production use, but xfs does really another job. The mysterious thing is that I do get notified some time of mails arriving in other mailboxes. To be more in detail: I've ~nico/Maildir which consists of several submaildirs: [20:55] hydrogenium:ccollect.sh% find ~/Maildir -name cur -type d | wc -l 646 mutt has all those maildirs listed in its configuration. To test what I say here I do the following: # start mutt in one xterm mutt -f ~/Maildir/ # create a new mail touch ~/Maildir/new/TEST # nothing happens in mutt # If I press cursor up or down in mutt, it refreshes the list and shows # the new message Now I do the same on a xfs partition and... I wonder, nothing happens in mutt again. Strange. I could swore mutt would be notified instantly. Now I ssh to another box and test the same on ext3. Nothing happens again until I move the cursor. Testing on xfs, jfs, ext3 and reiserfs on the remote machine, all behave now like what I was wondering about. Sorry guys, I am now totally confused. Perhaps Linux itself, my configuration on all machines or mutt changed. I'll try to find out, why mutt now behaves differently on all filesystems I use. Nico -- Latest project: cinit-0.2.1 (http://linux.schottelius.org/cinit/) Open Source nutures open minds and free, creative developers.
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