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Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Nov 7 11:05:03 2006

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: alserkli@inbox.ru, docbook.xml@gmail.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
In-Reply-To: <addede3b0611070516o1e24f691x9d01a1735311cb79@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:41:14 +1300

"Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml@gmail.com> writes:

>> My guess is that slow compilation is a result of access time
>> misconfiguration: if a filesystem has access time enabled, then each
>> time a file is read, the file system updates access time on disk. A
>> solution is to set noatime option on the filesystem used for
>> compilation.
>
>This is a good info. Do you how this can be done on windows?

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate =
1, but this probably shouldn't be necessary because for temp files Windows
will try to avoid creating the file on disk unless it runs out of file buffer
memory.

Peter.

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