From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:00:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:00:25 -0400 Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]:11270 "EHLO mailout06.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:00:17 -0400 Date: 11 Sep 2001 13:29:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <88fBVpFmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20010911002956.D582@cadcamlab.org> Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5 X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20010911002956.D582@cadcamlab.org> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org peter@cadcamlab.org (Peter Samuelson) wrote on 11.09.01 in <20010911002956.D582@cadcamlab.org>: > > I see two possible atime uses: > > > > 1. Cleaning up /tmp (mtime is *not* a good indicator that a file is no > > longer used) > > 2. Swapping out files to slower storage > > > > Essentially, both use the "do we still need this thing" aspect. > > The Debian 'popularity-contest' package has an interesting use for > atime. Oh yes, forgot about that one. It's still the same idea, though. > These go on the first volume of the Debian CD set, to > make a one-volume Debian CD as useful as possible. And the others are pushed to the second CD ... "swapping out files to slower storage". MfG Kai