From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v5 1/5] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:01:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141202210119.GD13618@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0CAF91FD-F713-4E98-8967-9CA0390CA784@dilger.ca>
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> One thing that comes to mind is touch/utimes()/utimensat(). Those
> should definitely not result in timestamps being kept only in memory
> for 24h, since the whole point of those calls is to update the times.
> It makes sense for these APIs to dirty the inode for proper writeout.
Not a problem. Touch/utimes* go through notify_change() and
->setattr, so they won't go through the I_DIRTY_TIME code path.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-28 6:00 [PATCH-v5 0/5] add support for a lazytime mount option Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 6:00 ` [PATCH-v5 1/5] vfs: " Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 17:23 ` Jan Kara
[not found] ` <20141128181421.GA19461@google.com>
2014-12-02 12:58 ` Jan Kara
2014-12-02 17:55 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-12-02 19:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-02 20:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-12-02 21:01 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-11-28 6:00 ` [PATCH-v5 2/5] vfs: don't let the dirty time inodes get more than a day stale Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 16:43 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-28 6:00 ` [PATCH 2/5] vfs: use writeback lists to provide lazytime one day timeout Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 17:20 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-28 6:00 ` [PATCH-v5 3/5] vfs: add lazytime tracepoints for better debugging Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 6:00 ` [PATCH-v5 4/5] vfs: add find_inode_nowait() function Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 6:00 ` [PATCH-v5 5/5] ext4: add optimization for the lazytime mount option Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 8:55 ` [PATCH-v5 0/5] add support for a " Sedat Dilek
2014-11-28 15:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 16:32 ` Jan Kara
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