Les Mikesell wrote: > I'm not sure anyone has mentioned what are probably the biggest uses of > atime: > (2) as an indication that files have never been used and can probably > be deleted. Since most backup operations act as a read, this tends to > not be very useful. Serious backup systems (programs designed for the purpose) save and restore the old value of atime. 'tar' has --atime-preserve. cpio has --reset-access-time. -- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
