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From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:04:46 -0700
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:31:28AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

>because there are situations where it produces too much false
>positives. Like when file system crawlers keep changing it when
>scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned files.

That's interesting, since most backup software uses the ctime to determine
file changes.

David