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Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format



On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:13:02PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> * On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 03:33PM +1000 Cameron Simpson (cs@xxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> > On 23Apr2009 18:13, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > | Of course, personally, I think recording access time (thereby turning 
> > | every disk access into a disk write) is a waste of my computer's time, 
> > | so I usually mount my filesystems with the "noatime" option.
> > 
> > Yes. On more modern UNIX systems the "relatime" mount option is an ok
> > compromise
> 
> Oh nice, I didn't know that existed. You never stop learning :)
> fstab adopted.
> 
Most recent linux distributions mount their main filesystems
"relatime" by default nowadays.  My xubuntu 8.10 does.

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Chris Green