Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

[Claudio Martins]

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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