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SubjectRe: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:46:52AM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I don't see why preserving the mtime and ctime would be necessary, since
> to move a file away you either don't touch it (using rename) or only
> read and unlink it (to write to a tape or other filesystem, and you can
> save the atime and mtime while doing it). So O_NOATIME is enough for
> both behaviours.

Maybe some day the file needs to come back from the tape ;-) Or rather
in the HSM scenario a part of the file.

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