From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46B8E227.1010300@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:20:39 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <46B4E161.9080100@garzik.org> <20070804224706.617500a0@the-village.bc.nu> <200708050051.40758.ctpm@ist.utl.pt> In-Reply-To: <200708050051.40758.ctpm@ist.utl.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Claudio Martins Cc: Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , Ingo Molnar , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, david@lang.hm List-ID: Claudio Martins wrote: > 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. > Programs which migrate unused files or delete them are the usual cases. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org