On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:28:29PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > i can't understand when atime is *ever* reliable... root doing > backups with something like rsync will cause atimes to change. well, rsync and friends could use O_NOATIME, but usually that isn't worth the pain > 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. i've seen other applications use it, but most are pretty tolerant about it not working that way you might think it would > also -- i wasn't aware that xfs tried to do a better job with atime > updates... i'm not sure it's really that effective. i've got a > busy shell/mail/web server OT, you might fine ikeep helps a little - 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
