It's a reasonable suggestion. The documentation for Unison suggests that is should ignore things like last access time and only look at permissions and the file contents, so in principle this shouldn't be the issue. On the other hand, I should play around with it anyway to see what the reality is.
Nick Mathias Stearn wrote: > If you are not using the noatime mount option it could be trying to > update the access times on the files. You almost certainly dont care > about that, so you may want to add that option. Another nice benefit > is that it reduces harddrive wear, and allows the drive to be shut off > more, squeezing a bit more battery life out of laptops. > > > On 1/30/08, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > The only thing I've noticed is that sometimes it says that the > properties of a file have changed and I'm not sure why. If the copy of > the file on the other machine has also changed, then this causes a > conflict, even though I almost certainly want the version with > substantive changes not just changes in file properties. I don't know > if there's a way that can be dealt with. > > > Nick > >
