On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:29:45PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: > My friend Akkana followed my advice to use noatime on one of her > machines, but discovered that mutt was unusable because it always > thought that new messages had arrived since the last time it had > checked a folder (mbox format). I thought this was a bummer, so I > wrote a "relative lazy atime" patch which only updates the atime if > the old atime was less than the ctime or mtime. This is not the same > as the lazy atime patch of yore[1], which maintained a list of inodes > with dirty atimes and wrote them out on unmount. This also happens to be useful for file systems such as Unionfs and (from what I hear) ocfs2 where atime updates can be costly at times. > Patch below. Current version (plus test program) is at: Looks fine IMHO. Josef "Jeff" Sipek. -- I'm somewhere between geek and normal. - Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
