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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:01:47 -0600
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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?