On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:12:36PM +0100, Thomas Lindroth wrote: > I ran e4defrag from e2fsprogs-1.42 on a file system and a lot of > folders had their mtime updated as a result. This confuses both my > backup program and myself. I guess the folder timestamps change > because the temporary donor file is created in the same directory as > the original file. XFS's defrag program put the donor files in a > temporary folder in the root of the file system. Maybe e4defrag > could do the same. Yes, that could be done if the user running the program (which does not have to be root) has write access to the root directory of the file system. There will certainly be cases where this will not be true, however. - Ted -- 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
