Enabling this option increse filesystem performance.
Create a file named for example “com.hdd.noatime.plist” in the directory /Library/LaunchDaemons
Edit the file:
nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.hdd.noatime.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.hdd.noatime</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>mount</string>
<string>-vuwo</string>
<string>noatime</string>
<string>/</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Save the file, and reboot. To verify you setting type in terminal mount
and you see similar:
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled, noatime)