Re: atime not written to disk

[Utako Kusaka <u-kusaka@wm.jp.nec.com>]

Hi,

Your problem seems the same as mine.
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-10/msg00168.html

Utako.

Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Before I investigate further ;-),
> it appears that in XFS (seen in recent xfs-dev tree and on older issp release
> on default mkfs/mount options),
> that the atime is not being written out to disk in xfs,
> at least, in the simple scenario below.
> 
> emu:/home/tes # echo bill >/mnt/test/bill
> emu:/home/tes # ls -l /mnt/test/bill
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-21 16:03 /mnt/test/bill
> emu:/home/tes # ls -lu /mnt/test/bill
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-21 16:03 /mnt/test/bill
> 
> ... wait a bit to change the atime...
> 
> emu:/home/tes # cat /mnt/test/bill
> bill
> emu:/home/tes # ls -lu /mnt/test/bill
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-21 16:11 /mnt/test/bill
> 
> emu:/home/tes # cd /
> emu:/ # umount /mnt/test
> emu:/ # mount /mnt/test
> emu:/mnt/test # ls -lu /mnt/test/bill
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-21 16:03 /mnt/test/bill
> 
> I believe that the atime is handled by the vfs and in xfs_iflush_int
> we sync up with the linux inode.
> Perhaps i_update_core needs to be set so that xfs_iflush_int
> will proceed and call xfs_synchronize_atime() and
> somehow that is not happening??
> 
> I haven't looked further yet, but I thought I'd ask on the list
> in case others, such as Christoph and Dave have thoughts on this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim.