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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:48:08 -0600
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	Akkana Peck <akkana@shallowsky.com>,
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	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>,
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:36:22PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote:
> (Corrected Chris Wedgwood's name and email.)
> 
> My friend Akkana followed my advice to use noatime on one of her
> machines, but discovered that mutt was unusable because it always
> thought that new messages had arrived since the last time it had
> checked a folder (mbox format).  I thought this was a bummer, so I

This is why people normally recommend "nodiratime" ...