Archive as of November, 6 2008

Disabling file access time updates using noatime in OS X

By spencer, Thursday, November 6, 2008 · 2:23 pm

The past few days people in Linux blogosphere have been bringing back up the noatime/nodiratime mount options. These options disable the updating of file and directory access times. On many standard systems when you read file a “last read,” or access time, timestamp is written to disk. Disabling the writing of access times [...]

BSD, Computers, Software, apple, osx
1 Comment (Show inline)

Jump to start of page | Jump to posts