Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

[Manon Metten <manon.metten@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca
<Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:


> I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as
> you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite
> fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have disabled
> previewing, or thumbnails.
>
> How can I do to make this process faster?


Hi Luca,

If you're using ext2/ext3, turning off dir/file access time might help.
Edit /etc/fstab and add noatime,nodiratime on the appropriate line,
like in the example below:

/dev/hdb2   /home   ext3   defaults,noatime,nodiratime   0   2

Manon.