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

Claudio Martins
2007-08-05T00:24:38Z

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