From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 20 13:55:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7BC37BFCF for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:55:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat3.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.195]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id XAA27033 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:53:25 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA05615 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:07:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:07:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: mounting with -o noatime Message-ID: <20000220140731.A5123@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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