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		shintoist on Dec 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Windows so slow? But most Linux distros do this by default as well. You have to mount with noatime to get rid of it.

wazoox on Dec 19, 2011 | [–]

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

I don't know if something similar exists under windows (I suppose it doesn't).

kinetik on Dec 19, 2011 | [–]

Linux has defaulted to relatime since 2009.

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