Adam Borowski posted on Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:55:30 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 06:29:06PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> So do consider adding noatime to your mount options if you haven't done >> so already. AFAIK, the only /semi-common/ app that actually uses >> atimes these days is mutt (for read-message tracking), and then not for >> mbox, so you should be safe to at least test turning it off. > > To the contrary, mutt uses atimes only for mbox.
Figures that I'd get it reversed. >> And YMMV, but if you do use mutt or something else that uses atimes, >> I'd go so far as to recommend finding an alternative, replacing either >> btrfs (because as I said, relatime is arguably enough on a traditional >> non-COW filesystem) or whatever it is that uses atimes, your call, >> because IMO it really is that big a deal. > > Fortunately, mutt's use could be fixed by teaching it to touch atimes > manually. And that's already done, for both forks (vanilla and > neomutt). Thanks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
