Claudio Martins wrote:

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

quoted

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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