Re: [Bacula-users] atime preservation

[Michael K. J. <a12...@da...>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:20, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> I have always planned to preserve atime, and all the code to do so is
> already in the File daemon, it is just a matter of providing a user
> syntax. Since no one asked for it, it fell to the bottom of my list, and
> I wasn't aware that it was used by any programs -- I now know that it is
> :-)

:-)

Any reason not to do it by default?

> 1970s were orders of magnitude better than the current *nix drivers. In
> other words *nix OS tape handling sucks! As much as I love *nix compared
> to Windows, the basic tape handler design is totally inadequate.

Just imagine a tape interface "designed" like sgtty^Wtermio^Wtermios.
I can imagine that being worse.  :-)

> Thanks for your kind words.

Welcome!