Re: mount -t null -o noatime

> No, I don't think so
So probably I need to try.

> Just mount the file system noatime while you're doing the restore?
The current use case is exercising a partial restore (just my own files) 
to estimate how long a full restore would take and to verify that the restore 
really works. For that, I want to go as close to the real thing as possible, 
e.g. I restore to a subdir on the real fs. So I don't want to turn off atimes 
on it.