Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:20:39 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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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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