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

[Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Danny Cox wrote:
>> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:10, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> 
>>>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.
>> 
>>      <shot from left field>
>> 
>>      Does running 'sync' after changes make any difference?
>> 
>>      </shot from left field>
>> 
> Doesn't appear to, no. No change before and after the sync command.

Maybe it's a more generic problem and related to the following bug Ted
Ts'o just found:
"[PATCH] BUGFIX: Ext2/3 noatime and dirsync sometimes ignored"
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104754557025362&w=2

Just a(nother) shot in the dark...

Regards,
Juri