Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965796AbXHGVp3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:45:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965827AbXHGVVT (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:21:19 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:58272 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965901AbXHGVVS (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:21:18 -0400 Message-ID: <46B8E227.1010300@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:20:39 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 23 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/