-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 5. Januar 2009 00:23:06 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: > In message <49613875.9020...@gmail.com>, M Watts <zwy648...@gmail.com> > writes > > >Whether you use ramdisks or not, you can increase harddisk performance > >by enabling the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab. Whenever you read a > >file, you system also performs a writing operation, to store the time > >of last access. Disable this by opening /etc/fstab, look for you root > >filesystem, and change where it says 'defaults' to 'defaults,noatime', > >then reboot and enjoy faster computing. > > WARNING! > > I think some things (notably source control) depend on atime so be > careful.
No, atime is the time the file was las **accessed**. I don' t know anything that depends on this. Source code control depends heavily on the time a file was last modified, which will of course still work. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJYUylTqjEwhXvPN0RAouXAJ4t286hCzYa6Ls21TsgEmPLuSjyngCfbs5W Ha/IeZPeTTfvbfXHlRZ4nFI= =2OuP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
