Re: [PATCH 5/14] HPFS: Remove mark_inode_dirty

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:43:27PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Remove mark_inode_dirty
> 
> HPFS doesn't use kernel's dirty inode indicator anyway because
> writing an inode requires directory's mutex.

No new by this patch, but note that c/mtime on mmap won't work without
using it.  We tried to get away with it for that in XFS, but it broke
the semantics.  Take a look at xfstests 215 for the reproducer.

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