If the parent of the moved directory has not changed, there's no real reason to change mtime. Specs doesn't seem to say anything about this particular case and e.g. ext3 does not change mtime in this case. So we become a tiny bit more consistent. Spotted by ronny.pretzsch@xxxxxx, initial fix by Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>. CC: ronny.pretzsch@xxxxxx CC: hare@xxxxxxx Acked-by: Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext2/namei.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c index 90ea179..556f258 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c @@ -352,7 +352,10 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct inode * old_dir, struct dentry * old_dentry, inode_dec_link_count(old_inode); if (dir_de) { - ext2_set_link(old_inode, dir_de, dir_page, new_dir); + /* Set link only if parent has changed and thus avoid setting + * of mtime of the moved directory on a pure rename. */ + if (old_dir != new_dir) + ext2_set_link(old_inode, dir_de, dir_page, new_dir); inode_dec_link_count(old_dir); } return 0; -- 1.6.0.2 -- 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