From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262243AbTJNIlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:41:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262268AbTJNIlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:41:04 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:65511 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262243AbTJNIk6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:40:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8BB699.3070404@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:40:57 +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: Anton Ertl CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , vs@thebsh.namesys.com, jw schultz , Alex Adriaanse Subject: Re: ReiserFS patch for updating ctimes of renamed files References: <2003Oct14.085717@a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <2003Oct14.085717@a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at> 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 I looked again at the definition of the difference between ctime and mtime on the stat man page, and I think that updating ctime in response to rename is as reasonable as updating it in response to changing the number of links. Ok, we will conform, and I will accept the kindly donated patch, along with Andrew's optimization of our evaluation of CURRENT_TIME. vs, please add Andrew's suggested optimization and sent the result through QA. Thanks to all for your good advice. -- Hans