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

Dave Jones
2007-08-06T15:59:19Z

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:39:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine
> > > and notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem.
> >
> > It still fails miserably for me.
> >
> > If I hit 'C' and '?' I get a list of my mail folders, with some of
> > them marked 'N' if they have new mail. Without atime, those N's never
> > show up and every mbox looks like it has no new mail.
>
> does it work with the "atime on steroids" patch below? (no need to
> configure anything, just apply the patch and go.)

people have reported that relatime does work, but my util-linux
isn't new enough to support it, so I've never got it to work.
I'll give your diff a try later, though as it seems to be
equivalent I expect it'll work.

Dave

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