From: R Hamilton (rjha@castle.ed.ac.uk)
Date: 09/28/92


From: rjha@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Hamilton)
Subject: atime/extfs
Date: 28 Sep 1992 13:46:58 GMT

Will the final version of the extended file system have atime/ctime
included. ?

I remember reading someone say that these arent really important
but in fact atime ("when was file xxx last read?")
is very useful, both for debugging (is X really reading that .xxxx file?)
and for file maintenance ,esp. on a small disk like most linuxers have.

eg ("What fonts are not being used ?") ...
        find xxx/fonts -atime +7 -print
tells you what fonts you havent accessed in a week
and can probably move offline to floppy.

The above ISNT a complaint!!!
Linux is the best thing thats ever happened to PC's
I've used Linux for a month and I'm still
amazed that I can have very nearly the same environment
on my little PC at home as the SUN I use at work
(and it's more fun to use!)