Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Ingo Molnar
2007-08-04T19:21:30Z

* Jorn Engel <joern@logfs.org> wrote:

> > I actually vote for that. IMO, distros should turn -on- atime
> > updates when they know its needed.
>
> If you mean "relatime" I concur. "noatime" hurts mutt and others
> while "relatime" has no known problems, afaics.

so ... one app can keep 30,000+ apps hostage?

i use Mutt myself, on such a filesystem:

/dev/md0 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr)

and i can see no problems, it notices new mails just fine.

Ingo