top | item 31292771 (no title) pdenton | 3 years ago IIRC, noatime is useful everywhere except /var/spool or /var/mail where certain daemons may depend on access time correctness. discuss order hn newest londons_explore|3 years ago You can't depend on access time correctness... Because someone else can come along and grep through all your files and now they're all accessed right now. viraptor|3 years ago That's the theory. In practice for example courier IMAP relied (still relies?) on at least relatime for some notification aspects. amelius|3 years ago Perhaps it just triggers some wasted CPU time, as opposed to incorrect behavior.
londons_explore|3 years ago You can't depend on access time correctness... Because someone else can come along and grep through all your files and now they're all accessed right now. viraptor|3 years ago That's the theory. In practice for example courier IMAP relied (still relies?) on at least relatime for some notification aspects. amelius|3 years ago Perhaps it just triggers some wasted CPU time, as opposed to incorrect behavior.
viraptor|3 years ago That's the theory. In practice for example courier IMAP relied (still relies?) on at least relatime for some notification aspects.
londons_explore|3 years ago
viraptor|3 years ago
amelius|3 years ago