On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:50 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:40:19PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > There are a few different types of full-disk backup, but if it's > > file-based and the atimes are modified, that's the intent of the > > backup process. The atimes are used to determine which files to > > backup. A scrub is not a backup and shouldn't modify the atimes. > > I can't imagine why you would use atime instead of ctime for backups. > Also, this seems really easy to game. Why not maintain a checksum record instead? That makes it possible to maintain more efficient deltas. Using atimes/mtimes is just asking for trouble. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
