On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:01:47PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:28:29PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > 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. > > For the shell, atime is the difference between 'you have mail' and 'you > have new mail'. > > I still don't understand though, how much does this really buy us over > nodiratime? Lazy atime buys us a reduction in writes over nodiratime for any workload which reads files, such as grep -r, a kernel compile, or backup software. Do I misunderstand the question? -VAL - 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
