Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:07:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: mounting with -o noatime Message-ID: <20000220140731.A5123@hades.hell.gr>
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Today I realized that mounting with -o noatime can break the way some mailers/mailbox-formats work. For instance with my /usr/home partition mounted -o noatime, I always kept seeing in Mutt that my mbox folders contained new mail! The realization that Mutt uses atime as a quick check to see if the file contains new mail came a few hours and a lot of test mail afterwards. Since a lot of people might find this piece of information useful when they're trying to use noatime, I thought I'd just drop a note. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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