From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m5J8KQ0w006008 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:20:27 -0700 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 53BD3CF3985 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id wtfXlQyVXUA9WBju for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:21:24 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Directory mtime update issue (kernel 2.6.25) Message-ID: <20080619082124.GA24076@infradead.org> References: <20080618144534.GC11301@aurora.pimp.org.za> <20080618163356.GA6330@infradead.org> <20080618191045.GA10722@aurora.pimp.org.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080618191045.GA10722@aurora.pimp.org.za> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Michael-John Turner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs@oss.sgi.com 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.