On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 06:29:06PM +0000, Duncan wrote: > So do consider adding noatime to your mount options if you haven't done > so already. AFAIK, the only /semi-common/ app that actually uses atimes > these days is mutt (for read-message tracking), and then not for mbox, so > you should be safe to at least test turning it off.
To the contrary, mutt uses atimes only for mbox. > And YMMV, but if you do use mutt or something else that uses atimes, I'd > go so far as to recommend finding an alternative, replacing either btrfs > (because as I said, relatime is arguably enough on a traditional non-COW > filesystem) or whatever it is that uses atimes, your call, because IMO it > really is that big a deal. Fortunately, mutt's use could be fixed by teaching it to touch atimes manually. And that's already done, for both forks (vanilla and neomutt). Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Have you heard of the Amber Road? For thousands of years, the ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Romans and co valued amber, hauled through the Europe over the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mountains and along the Vistula, from Gdańsk. To where it came ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ together with silk (judging by today's amber stalls).
