John Reiser wrote:
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.
Unfortunately those do more damage than good, since incremental backups
need to be based on ctime changes and resetting the atime updates ctime.
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