Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759509AbXHEMvQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:51:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755730AbXHEMvF (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:51:05 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48380 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750927AbXHEMvD (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:51:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:47:50 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Ingo Molnar Cc: J??rn Engel , Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 Message-ID: <20070805134750.691e2e74@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070805072141.GA4414@elte.hu> References: <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> <20070804192130.GA25346@elte.hu> <20070804211156.5f600d80@the-village.bc.nu> <20070804202830.GA4538@elte.hu> <20070804210351.GA9784@elte.hu> <20070804225121.5c7b66e0@the-village.bc.nu> <20070805072141.GA4414@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 15 > > we can move from atime to noatime by default on FC8 with appropriate > > release note warnings and having a couple of betas to find out what > > other than mutt goes boom. > > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine and > notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem. Configuration dependant, and also mutt and the shell will misreport new mail with noatime on the mail spool. The shell should probably use inotify of course but that change has to be made. - 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/