From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael-John Turner <mj@mjturner.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Directory mtime update issue (kernel 2.6.25)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:21:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619082124.GA24076@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080618191045.GA10722@aurora.pimp.org.za>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:10:45PM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply and the patch. I'm surprised this hasn't been
> mentioned before as every other Unix filesystem I've used has not updated
> the moved file's mtime during a rename(2). It's also odd that XFS only
> changes the mtime when there's a new parent.
>
> What does everyone else think? Would it be possible to have this patch or a
> similar one committed upstream?
The patch also passes xfsqa, so it should be ready now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 14:45 Directory mtime update issue (kernel 2.6.25) Michael-John Turner
2008-06-18 16:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-18 19:10 ` Michael-John Turner
2008-06-19 8:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-06-18 22:30 ` Michael-John Turner
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