Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756592AbXHFQAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752179AbXHFQAB (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:00:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33527 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751046AbXHFQAA (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:59:19 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alan Cox , 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: <20070806155919.GA21066@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , 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 References: <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> <20070805184408.GB22639@redhat.com> <20070806063909.GB31321@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070806063909.GB31321@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1146 Lines: 30 On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:39:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dave Jones wrote: > > > > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine > > > and notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem. > > > > It still fails miserably for me. > > > > If I hit 'C' and '?' I get a list of my mail folders, with some of > > them marked 'N' if they have new mail. Without atime, those N's never > > show up and every mbox looks like it has no new mail. > > does it work with the "atime on steroids" patch below? (no need to > configure anything, just apply the patch and go.) people have reported that relatime does work, but my util-linux isn't new enough to support it, so I've never got it to work. I'll give your diff a try later, though as it seems to be equivalent I expect it'll work. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/