From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
lasse-kernelbug-2008@mail.plastictree.net
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10276] New: directory ctime not updated by rename
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318105403.8b2d8d8c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080318174608.GH10722@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:46:09 +0000 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Do we agree that this is a bug? If so, is it a VFS thing or a per-fs
> > thing?
>
> The latter; all control over timestamps on directory operations is in
> filesystems.
OK
> Which filesystem it is, BTW?
ext3.
> E.g. ext2 has
> dir->i_mtime = dir->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
> in ext2_set_link() (and the same in ext2_add_entry()/ext2_delete_entry()),
> so on all paths in ext2_rename() both parents will get ctime and mtime
> updated; so will the object being moved and the object being unlinked
> (explicitly in ext2_rename()).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-10276-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2008-03-18 17:00 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 10276] New: directory ctime not updated by rename Andrew Morton
2008-03-18 17:46 ` Al Viro
2008-03-18 17:53 ` Al Viro
2008-03-18 17:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-20 3:36 ` hooanon05
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