* Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Configuration dependant, and also mutt and the shell will misreport > new mail with noatime on the mail spool. The shell should probably use > inotify of course but that change has to be made.
just to quote from this same email thread: | I too use mutt and noatime,nodiratime everywhere (same 10 year-old | thinko), and the only side effect is that when I have a new mail, it | is reported in all of my xterms until I read it, clearly something I | can live with (and sometimes it's even desirable). | | In fact, mutt is pretty good at this. It updates atime and ctime | itself as soon as it opens the mbox, so the shell is happy and only | reports "you have mail" afterwards. 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/