Claudio Martins wrote:
On Saturday 04 August 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
Linux has never been a "suprise your kernel interfaces all just changed
today" kernel, nor a "gosh you upgraded and didn't notice your backups
broke" kernel.
Can you give examples of backup solutions that rely on atime being updated?
I can understand backup tools using mtime/ctime for incremental backups (like
tar + Amanda, etc), but I'm having trouble figuring out why someone would
want to use atime for that.
Programs which migrate unused files or delete them are the usual cases.
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