From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:25:19 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH -v6 2/2] Updating ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files Message-ID: <20080118232519.4cc65df2@bree.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <1200703803.25782.45.camel@cinder.waste.org> References: <12006091182260-git-send-email-salikhmetov@gmail.com> <200801182332.02945.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <20080118175450.715ded60@bree.surriel.com> <1200703803.25782.45.camel@cinder.waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matt Mackall Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Oeser , Miklos Szeredi , peterz@infradead.org, salikhmetov@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, jakob@unthought.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu, ksm@42.dk, staubach@redhat.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, protasnb@gmail.com, r.e.wolff@bitwizard.nl, hidave.darkstar@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org List-ID: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:50:03 -0600 Matt Mackall wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:54 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Backup programs not seeing an updated mtime is a really big deal. > > And that's fixed with the 4-line approach. > > Reminds me, I've got a patch here for addressing that problem with loop mounts: > > Writes to loop should update the mtime of the underlying file. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org