Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: update donor file's ctime/mtime

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On 8-Oct-09, at 02:04, Kazuya Mio wrote:

EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT changes donor file data, but doesn't update ctime/ mtime.
This patch fixes this problem.

I would argue that just migrating the file data shouldn't update the ctime/mtime. Those are used to determine if the file has changed in some way, usually for the purpose of backup. Migrating the data does not change anything from the user-space
POV and shouldn't force a new backup of the file.
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