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...t; the file, then falsely set it back to what it was, after > reading the file, > and hope that it wasn't set to something else in the > interim... a kludge > at best. Well, gnu tar provides a "--atime-preserve". All applications which backup filesystems (legato, quickrestore, budtools) preserve times on an application level. A backup tool is supposed to bypass normal filesystem access as it's supposed to be transparent. > Why not mount the filesystem on an alternate mountpoint, noatime or > readonly? On AIX, you can just mount the dir wherever. I...