Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751503AbWHFDBu (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:01:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751502AbWHFDBu (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:01:50 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:64714 "EHLO palinux.external.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751500AbWHFDBt (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:01:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:01:47 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: dean gaudet Cc: David Lang , Mark Fasheh , Chris Wedgwood , Arjan van de Ven , Dave Kleikamp , Christoph Hellwig , Valerie Henson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Akkana Peck , Jesse Barnes , jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu, Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime Message-ID: <20060806030147.GG4379@parisc-linux.org> References: <20060803063622.GB8631@goober> <20060805122537.GA23239@lst.de> <1154797123.12108.6.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <1154797475.3054.79.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060805183609.GA7564@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20060805222247.GQ29686@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 15 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/