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Idea #2625: Improve Nautilus' ability to cope with large directories

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1521: Speed-up File Managers.
Written by jiu the 3 Mar 08 at 00:35. Category: Office. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Some system should be put in place to speed up the way nautilus accesses and shows the contents of directories with lots of files in them, such as /usr/bin
It takes about 10s to load on my Pentium M 1.6GHz, 1Gb of RAM.
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Written by jiu the 3 Mar 08 at 00:35.
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mniess wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 01:32
As Torvalds (and another kernel dev whose name I can't remember) suggested on LKML:

noatime and nodiratime should be default mount-options for all volumes. Every read-access is also a write-access because the access-time is saved. noatime prevents this and there is no sane reason to write these access-times on a desktop system unless the user uses mutt as his/her email-client.

jiu wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 10:14
I don't understand the above comment but it sure sounds impressive

Auzy wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 10:43
Noatime I believe just means that access times on files are not stored (which isn't a biggy anyway), and nodiratime is obvious.


Last accessed times are especially pointless these days because for starters, you have indexers which index files (so access it then), and in most file managers, they also access them to create a thumbnail. So the accessed times can rarely be relied on anyway.

Most people would only care about last modified or created (or for photos, time taken).

Mneeiss is right.

jiu wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:56
Thanks for the explanation, man

zaryk wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 08:08
It's a dup of: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1521/

jiu wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 08:26
not a good reason for voting it down, but whatever.

elias1884 wrote on the 9 Jul 08 at 12:23
Large directories, I laugh my ass off! Large for nautilus is everything with more than 20 folders.


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