Re: [PATCH 5/5] btrfs: add no_mtime flag to btrfs-extent-same

David Sterba
2015-06-25T12:52:52Z

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> Is there any sane use case where we would _want_ EXTENT_SAME to change
> the mtime? We do a lot of work to make sure that none of the files
> involved have any sort of content change. Why do we need the flag at all?

Good point, I don't see the usecase for updating MTIME.