linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Akkana Peck <akkana@shallowsky.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>,
	jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:01:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060806030147.GG4379@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608051612330.20926@twinlark.arctic.org>

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:28:29PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> you can work around mutt's silly dependancy on atime by configuring it 
> with --enable-buffy-size.  so far mutt is the only program i've discovered 
> which cares about atime.

For the shell, atime is the difference between 'you have mail' and 'you
have new mail'.

I still don't understand though, how much does this really buy us over
nodiratime?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-06  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-03  6:36 [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime Valerie Henson
2006-08-03 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-05 12:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-05 13:22   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-09 14:03     ` Valerie Henson
2006-08-09 15:49       ` Erez Zadok
2006-08-10 12:27       ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-05 16:58   ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-08-05 17:04     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-05 18:36       ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-05 22:22         ` Mark Fasheh
2006-08-05 23:06           ` David Lang
2006-08-05 23:28             ` dean gaudet
2006-08-06  0:11               ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-06  3:01               ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-08-09  6:39                 ` Valerie Henson
2006-08-09 12:21                   ` Jörn Engel
2006-08-09 12:58                     ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-08-10 11:34                     ` Frank van Maarseveen
2006-08-10 17:28                   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-08-06  0:13             ` Mark Fasheh
     [not found] <6Gts4-6UM-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6GxFs-4Tg-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <6Gy8r-5Oh-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <6Gze7-7oP-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <6GCOJ-4fv-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <6GDB1-5qX-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <6GDKT-5Eb-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <6GHbD-2hm-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]               ` <6HQ3c-6Pf-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                 ` <6HVml-6DI-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                   ` <6Ih3l-5FP-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-08-10 13:07                     ` Bodo Eggert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-03  6:29 Valerie Henson
2006-08-03  6:44 ` Josef Sipek

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20060806030147.GG4379@parisc-linux.org \
    --to=matthew@wil.cx \
    --cc=akkana@shallowsky.com \
    --cc=arjan@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=cw@f00f.org \
    --cc=dean@arctic.org \
    --cc=dlang@digitalinsight.com \
    --cc=hch@lst.de \
    --cc=jesse.barnes@intel.com \
    --cc=jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mark.fasheh@oracle.com \
    --cc=shaggy@austin.ibm.com \
    --cc=val_henson@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=viro@ftp.linux.org.uk \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).