Re: Filesystem mounts fine but hangs on access

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Adam Borowski posted on Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:55:30 +0100 as excerpted:

> 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.

Figures that I'd get it reversed.
 
>> 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).

Thanks.

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