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Re: st_atime


According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/12/2008 11:51 AM:

When last access time functionality is disabled, utilities that rely on sst_Atime attribute will not work correctly. For example, the U option of ls utility will not work as expected unless last access time is enabled."

*Sob*,

Agreed :( Remind me to not switch to Vista any time soon.


But no different than using the Linux mount flag of NOATIME - except that with Linux, you can make the decision on a per-mount basis rather than globally, and the decision is not forced on you by a default installation. atime updates really do lead to slower performance, so even though POSIX requires atime on non-read-only file systems, I can understand the performance gain for skipping it.

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