The patch titled ext3: fix update of mtime and ctime on rename has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-fix-update-of-mtime-and-ctime-on-rename.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3: fix update of mtime and ctime on rename From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Make ext3 update mtime and ctime of the directory into which we move file even if the directory entry already exists. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/namei.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/ext3/namei.c~ext3-fix-update-of-mtime-and-ctime-on-rename fs/ext3/namei.c --- a/fs/ext3/namei.c~ext3-fix-update-of-mtime-and-ctime-on-rename +++ a/fs/ext3/namei.c @@ -2323,6 +2323,8 @@ static int ext3_rename (struct inode * o EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE)) new_de->file_type = old_de->file_type; new_dir->i_version++; + new_dir->i_ctime = new_dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; + ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, new_dir); BUFFER_TRACE(new_bh, "call ext3_journal_dirty_metadata"); ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, new_bh); brelse(new_bh); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are git-udf.patch git-ocfs2.patch vfs-fix-lock-inversion-in-drop_pagecache_sb.patch vfs-skip-inodes-without-pages-to-free-in-drop_pagecache_sb.patch quota-do-not-allow-setting-of-quota-limits-to-too-high-values.patch quota-remove-superfluous-dquot_off-in-fs-namespacec.patch quota-various-style-cleanups.patch quota-various-style-cleanups-checkpatch-fixes.patch quota-quota-core-changes-for-quotaon-on-remount.patch quota-quota-core-changes-for-quotaon-on-remount-quota-ext3-make-ext3-handle-quotaon-on-remount.patch quota-quota-core-changes-for-quotaon-on-remount-quota-ext3-make-ext3-handle-quotaon-on-remount-checkpatch-fixes.patch quota-quota-core-changes-for-quotaon-on-remount-quota-ext4-make-ext4-handle-quotaon-on-remount.patch quota-quota-core-changes-for-quotaon-on-remount-quota-ext4-make-ext4-handle-quotaon-on-remount-checkpatch-fixes.patch quota-quota-core-changes-for-quotaon-on-remount-quota-reiserfs-make-reiserfs-handle-quotaon-on-remount.patch ext3-fdatasync-should-skip-metadata-writeout-when-overwriting.patch ext3-fix-update-of-mtime-and-ctime-on-rename.patch quota-le_add_cpu-conversion.patch ext4-fix-update-of-mtime-and-ctime-on-rename.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html