Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] Improved inode number allocation for HTree

[Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:02:54PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:47:14PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Why start?  Who actually uses atime for anything at all, other than the
> > tiny number of shops that care about moving untouched files to tertiary
> > storage?
> > 
> > Surely if you want to heap someone else's plate with work, you should
> > offer a reason why :-)
> 
> "You have new mail" vs "You have mail".

And having a clean /tmp using tmpwatch.  Everything in my /tmp not
accessed for a few weeks gets deleted.  I move cruft to /tmp every
single day, and I have not cleaned it up for years. It just stays tidy
all by itself.  Of course one has to remember this when leavning a few
database files there before taking a vacation   ;)

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