Messages in this thread | | | From | Claudio Martins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 | Date | Sun, 5 Aug 2007 00:51:40 +0100 |
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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.
Best regards
Claudio
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