questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 21 June 2017 07:07:57 Liam Proven wrote:

> On 20 June 2017 at 23:56, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> > People recommend the "noatime" mount option to reduce metadata
> > updates to SSDs. All SSDs are subject to wear.
>
> This is true and trivial to implement. It can break a very small
> number of tools, though, including the Maildir storage format.
>
I've not heard of that effect before, Liam, can you elaborate how this 
breaks a maildir format?

I ask because I have 20+ Gb of mail up to 16 yo, in maildir format.

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