Re: using Ramdisk

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Montag, 5. Januar 2009 00:23:06 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman:
> In message <address@hidden>, M Watts <address@hidden>
> 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
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