On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:46:09 +0000 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Do we agree that this is a bug? If so, is it a VFS thing or a per-fs > > thing? > > The latter; all control over timestamps on directory operations is in > filesystems. OK > Which filesystem it is, BTW? ext3. > E.g. ext2 has > dir->i_mtime = dir->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; > in ext2_set_link() (and the same in ext2_add_entry()/ext2_delete_entry()), > so on all paths in ext2_rename() both parents will get ctime and mtime > updated; so will the object being moved and the object being unlinked > (explicitly in ext2_rename()). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
