Re: Mounting with option "nodiratime" and "noatime"

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:02:26 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, George wrote:

> >What possible things could break with this configuration? What
>
> You'll never know when you really have new mail. :)

Well, I probably wont mount "/" with it then. It doesn't much
matter though, I have PINE running on tty8 24/7 pretty much, and
I am on dialup PPP, so I know when I have mail because once I've
told it to download, I most certainly have 500 emails...

I always have mail in /var/spool/mail that is unread...

There is no critical system things that depend on atime though is
there?

One note:

I upgraded mount, and found out that kernel 2.0.35 does NOT
support NODIRATIME. There must be a patch somewhere to do it.

Alan, what are the chances of getting NODIRATIME into 2.0.36 or
37?

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