[Novalug] ext4 vs. ext3 vs. ext2
Mackenzie Morgan
macoafi@gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 16:59:10 EDT 2009
On Monday 07 September 2009 4:53:22 pm James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> What IS of great use is to use "noatime" on EVERY filesystem. Unless you
> have a specific reason, atime is Essentially Useless.
>
> And I am baffled by relatime...what does it accomplish?
One day my friend Akkana said to our friend Valerie that her mail client
(mutt, I think?) was FUBARing after switching to noatime. Turns out it figures
out if a folder is read or unread based on timestamps. So Valerie invented
relatime. It selectively updates timestamps so that MTAs don't freak out.
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Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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