Re: [BUG] mtime&ctime updated when it should not

[Andrew Morton]

Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > Isn't this sufficient?
>    I think it is not (I tried exactly the same patch but it didn't work)
>  - the problem is that vmtruncate() is called when prepare_write() fails
>  and this function also updates mtime and ctime.

Oh OK.

So we would need to change each filesystem's ->truncate to not update the
inode times, then move the timestamp updating up into vmtruncate().

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/