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I suspect it has something to do with NTFS updating access times by default. So every time you do anything with a file, it gets its access time updated (not mo

by prewett 15y ago

I suspect it has something to do with NTFS updating access times by default. So every time you do anything with a file, it gets its access time updated (not modification time, access time). I don't have windows to test on, but you could try the suggestions [1][2] below. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940846(v=winembedded.5).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940846(v=winembedd... [2] http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html (#8)

darklajid 15y ago
As posted elsewhere and as someone pointed out in the very comments of the article: That doesn't seem to be the case for Windows 7 anymore.
shintoist 15y ago
But most Linux distros do this by default as well. You have to mount with noatime to get rid of it.
- kinetik 15y ago
  Linux has defaulted to relatime since 2009.
- wazoox 15y ago
  In fact nowadays most (all?) linux filesystems use relatime as default, which carries most of the advantages of both atime and noatime. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 I don't know if something similar exists under windows (I suppose it doesn't).
lloeki 15y ago
Mac OS X does appear to mount with atime but I happened to use this: $ cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.nullvision.noatime.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.nullvision.noatime</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>mount</string> <string>-vuwo</string> <string>noatime</string> <string>/</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> I don't know if there's anything like relatime.
RexRollman 15y ago
The updating of last access time has been disabled since the release of Windows Vista (although you can turn it back on): http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/11/07/disabling-last-access-time-in-windows-vista-to-improve-ntfs-performance.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/11/07/disabl...

by prewett 15y ago

darklajid 15y ago

As posted elsewhere and as someone pointed out in the very comments of the article: That doesn't seem to be the case for Windows 7 anymore.

shintoist 15y ago

But most Linux distros do this by default as well. You have to mount with noatime to get rid of it.

kinetik 15y ago
Linux has defaulted to relatime since 2009.
wazoox 15y ago
In fact nowadays most (all?) linux filesystems use relatime as default, which carries most of the advantages of both atime and noatime. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 I don't know if something similar exists under windows (I suppose it doesn't).

lloeki 15y ago

Mac OS X does appear to mount with atime but I happened to use this: $ cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.nullvision.noatime.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.nullvision.noatime</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>mount</string> <string>-vuwo</string> <string>noatime</string> <string>/</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> I don't know if there's anything like relatime.

RexRollman 15y ago

The updating of last access time has been disabled since the release of Windows Vista (although you can turn it back on): http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/11/07/disabling-last-access-time-in-windows-vista-to-improve-ntfs-performance.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/11/07/disabl...