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1000100_1000101today at 4:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

You'd need your OS to support, and be configured to use, a disk mounting option that disables file access timestamps, otherwise reads ARE writes.


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wtallistoday at 7:55 PM

Do any operating systems update file access time after every read operation instead of just at fopen?

trinix912today at 5:25 PM

...and disable swap.