On 6/9/2011 1:09 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/10/11, Markus Falb<markus.falb at fasel.at> wrote: >> Yes, but before doing this be sure that your Software does not need atime. > > For a brief moment, I had that sinking "Oh No... why didn't I see this > earlier" feeling especially since I've already remounted the > filesystem with noatime. > > Fortunately, so far it seems that everything's still alive and > working, keeping fingers crossed :D The last access time is generally not needed, especially for Maildirs. On our setup, Postfix and Dovecot don't care. I always mount as many file systems as possible with 'noatime'. (Our IMAP Maildir storage is a 4-disk RAID 1+0 array with a few million individual messages across a lot of accounts.)