* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I actually vote for that. IMO, distros should turn -on- atime > > updates when they know its needed. > > If you mean "relatime" I concur. "noatime" hurts mutt and others > while "relatime" has no known problems, afaics.
so ... one app can keep 30,000+ apps hostage? i use Mutt myself, on such a filesystem: /dev/md0 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr) and i can see no problems, it notices new mails just fine. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/