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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:15:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4632842F.20101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46314C3B.3040908@redhat.com>

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Primarily to let a backup program restore the full state of the filesystem.
> 
> Is this wanted?  Or needed?  I would think there are good reasons why
> this hasn't been done so far.  Intrusion detection is one reason I can
> think of.

Well, dump/restore -- the traditional Unix backup solution -- went "the
back way" to restore the times in the filesystem.

The main use of atime seems to be to figure out when something can be
automatically deleted.  Anyone else have other usage scenarios?

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26 22:49 Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-26 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-27  0:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:55     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  0:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  1:04         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:15           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-27 23:05             ` David Lang
2007-04-27 23:30             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:33               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:54   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 15:27     ` Updated utimensat test program Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  1:57 ` [PATCH] utimensat implementation Neil Brown
2007-04-27  2:13   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  6:01     ` Neil Brown
2007-05-10 18:26     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-10 18:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 19:44         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-13 21:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-11  1:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-11  2:14       ` Neil Brown

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