Re: [NEWBIE] Why aren't directory mtimes updated like other filesystems?

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxx>]

Steve Lord wrote:
> > Strange, I try exactly the same commands and the ctime gets updated but the 
> > mtime does not. Are you running on 2.5?
>
> Ah, this is 2.4, I don't have a spare box for 2.5 here right now,
> but I know someone who does. The core xfs code is the same, and it
> is updating the timestamp fields in the inode. Possibly it is
> something in the stat path.
Actually, it may be more insidious than that. When I did some testing over a 30 
minute period, at one point making a new subdirectory caused the parent's mtime 
to update, but it updated to a time of about 10 minutes previous, when I had mad 
other changes. So it did change, but not to the current time. Very strange.