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Re: Directory mtime update issue (kernel 2.6.25)

To: Michael-John Turner <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Directory mtime update issue (kernel 2.6.25)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:21:24 -0400
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20080618191045.GA10722@aurora.pimp.org.za>
References: <20080618144534.GC11301@aurora.pimp.org.za> <20080618163356.GA6330@infradead.org> <20080618191045.GA10722@aurora.pimp.org.za>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:10:45PM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply and the patch. I'm surprised this hasn't been
> mentioned before as every other Unix filesystem I've used has not updated
> the moved file's mtime during a rename(2). It's also odd that XFS only
> changes the mtime when there's a new parent.
> 
> What does everyone else think? Would it be possible to have this patch or a
> similar one committed upstream?

The patch also passes xfsqa, so it should be ready now.


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