[Dovecot] mail location filesystem noatime, nodiratime?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 19 17:58:18 EEST 2010


On 19.5.2010, at 16.39, Gregory Finch wrote:

> My install uses XFS with noatime on all mount points and works
> perfectly... I haven't tried it with nodiratime yet apparently.. I


noatime also implicitly enables nodiratime. No need to specify both.

And yeah, Dovecot doesn't need automatic atime updates. It does use atimes to scan once in a while for some temp files that have been left lying around, but it explicitly changes the atime afterwards.



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