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

Jakob Oestergaard
2003-03-11T08:36:56Z

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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