Disabling atime
Miroslav Lichvar
mlichvar at redhat.com
Fri Aug 10 20:10:47 UTC 2007
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:45:00AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:26:02 +0530,
> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
> >
> > Looks like we get a good performance boost and only tmpwatch and mutt
> > with mbox seems to be affected. A simple patch to tmpwatch has been
> > posted on the same thread.
>
> mutt can also use maildir format which has some advantages over mbox.
> I don't know how commonly people using mutt use maildir instead of mbox
> though.
mutt handles mbox with noatime if check_mbox_size option is enabled in
config. There are some limitations, it doesn't work well when running
two instances of mutt simultaneously, but it's usable.
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Miroslav Lichvar
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