questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Jim Ohlstein]

Hello,

On 06/21/2017 08:32 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 21 June 2017 at 13:20, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20472160-Why-isn-t-noatime-the-default
> 
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1245036
> 
> It seems to be contentious and may not be an issue after all...

 From personal experience, I've been using ZFS with "noatime" and 
Maildir for years with no ill effects.

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Jim Ohlstein
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