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  • From: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
  • To: Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] reiserfs and noatime
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:38:33 -0700 (PDT)

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notail is more speedy, but uses more space.

noatime gets a little performance benefit, but by default, I think we
should enable atime or ask during install?

notail is more important than noatime. This could be an option during
install as well, I suppose.

I don't know about the confusing lilo bit.

Seth

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Robin wrote:

> Hey there, I just fixed a little problem that has bothered me since I
> started with Sourcemage: Mutt wouldn't pick up on new mail, always
> thinking that a mailbox had new mail in it as soon as I left it.
>
> I found that the cause of this was 'noatime' being applied to most of my
> partitions, which I'm quite sure I didn't do myself. Was there a reason
> for this? (Except obviously the times that noatime is supposed to be
> used: performance tweaking etc). This would be a legacy of when I
> installed Sourcemage however long ago (*checks* ... the first message in
> ~/Mail/sourcemage is dated 1/7/02...thats today a year ago :).
> I also decided to take a look at the other options that where there, and
> found that all my reiserfs partitions had 'notail'. Is there a reason
> for this one? (I guess it may may matter on a /boot partition,
> apparently it can confuse LILO a bit)
>
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