On 08/09/2007 02:25 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >> yeah, it's really ugly. But otherwise i've got no real complaint >> about ext3 - with the obligatory qualification that >> "noatime,nodiratime" in /etc/fstab is a must. This speeds up things >> very visibly (...). So for most file workloads we give Windows a >> 20%-30% performance edge, for almost nothing. > > It has been years since I used MS Windows much, but from my memories > of my these days, I was under the impression that it (at least the NT > line, the only surviving line these days) also maintained "last > accessed" times. Except I only ever saw it at "right now" because the > file explorer ... accesses the file before getting this metadata or > something like that (when you right-click on a file and ask for its > properties). It has creation and last modification time, too. >
NT maintains atimes by default, at least up to XP. You have to edit the registry to turn them off, and it is a single global switch -- not per mountpoint like Unix. And it makes a huge difference there, too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
