René J.V. Bertin writes:
On Saturday April 03 2021 18:29:27 Moritz Petersen wrote:
Hello,
I have noticed that whenever I view a directory in Dolphin, the
atimes of certain files are updated, even without me actually
opening any files.
Which files are 'accessed' apparently depends on their
extensions. For example an empty .ogg file will have its atime
updated, while an empty .m4a file will not. I have disabled all
previews but that hasn't helped.
Is there any way to disable this Behaviour?
This may not be within dolphin's control... mount your
filesystem with noatime (and nodiratime) and the behaviour
should stop completely I think (and your filesystem should
become snappier). In theory the atime is updated each time a
file is accessed, and there are just too many reasons that could
happen (without causing any change in the file) for the info to
be of any interest as far as I'm concerned.
I understand this is a strange problem and probably a complicated
one. I would disable atimes completely but I want to utilize them
for an application, which is how I stumbled across this in the
first place. In my (perhaps naive) opinion there should not be any
reason for the file to be accessed unless I interact with it's
content in some way. I have tested this with a few file managers
now and have only observed the same result with konqueror.
That said, it seems weird that only some files would be
affected, so you could report this on bugs.kde.org . That will
bring the issue under the direct attention of the dev team and
they'll tell you if there's another way than the one I mentioned
to prevent it, why they can't do anything about it (if so), etc.
Done: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435341
Thank you,
Moritz
