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

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:51 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> <snip>   
> >> 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?
> ><snip>
> >
> > 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
> ><snip>
Apparently noatime implies nodiratime.  Thanks - John