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DateTue, 07 Aug 2007 17:20:39 -0400
FromBill Davidsen <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8
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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