From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261879AbTJNGNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:13:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261889AbTJNGNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:13:14 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:58341 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261879AbTJNGNN (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:13:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8B93F7.2020805@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:13:11 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: jw@pegasys.ws, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vs@thebsh.namesys.com, nikita@namesys.com Subject: Re: ReiserFS patch for updating ctimes of renamed files References: <20031012071447.GJ8724@pegasys.ws> <3F8A3CE0.4060705@namesys.com> <20031013032431.1ed40c25.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031013032431.1ed40c25.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>In theory it is cleaner and purer to do it the way we did. In practice, >> Alex's problem seems like a real one, and I don't know how hard it is to >> change tar to do the right thing. We'll discuss it in a small seminar >> today. >> >> > >It would be best to make this change. minix, ext2 and ext3 do set ctime, >so it is "the Linux standard". > > > > > > do you think schultz's arguments about why it is wrong are correct? They seem well thought out to me. -- Hans