Re: [PATCH 1/3] update timestamp in xfs_ialloc manually

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 07:07:25PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 08:33:31AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > In xfs_ialloc we just want to set all timestamps to the current time.
> > We don't need to mark the inode dirty like xfs_ichgtime does, and we
> > don't need nor want the opimizations in xfs_ichgtime that I will
> > introduce in the next patch.
> 
> Looks sane, and solves an issue with code I'm working on, too.
> 
> FWIW, the conditional check against I_NEW before marking the
> indo dirty can be removed as well, as this was call that required
> avoiding avoiding it.

Yeah.  Will update and retest the patch.