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

Jörn Engel
2007-08-04T19:30:28Z

On Sat, 4 August 2007 21:21:30 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jörn 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.

Given the choice between only "atime" and "noatime" I'd agree with you.
Heck, I use it myself. But "relatime" seems to combine the best of both
worlds. It currently just suffers from mount not supporting it in any
relevant distro.

Jörn

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