Re: [PATCH -v6 2/2] Updating ctime and mtime for memory-mappedfiles

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 23:26:49 EST


On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:50:03 -0600
Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:54 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > Backup programs not seeing an updated mtime is a really big deal.
>
> And that's fixed with the 4-line approach.
>
> Reminds me, I've got a patch here for addressing that problem with loop mounts:
>
> Writes to loop should update the mtime of the underlying file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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