Re: noatime mounts inhibiting atime updates via utime()

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> Honestly, I think atime is one of the dumbest thing ever.
We occasionally use them to find out (or have a first guess at):
-- has anyone used libfoobar last year?
-- who uses kbaz, i.e. has /home/xyz/.config/kbaz.conf been accessed?

We use snapshots to run backups, so atimes are not touched by them.