We were actually fixing up the directory mtime in both branches after the negative dentry test, it was just that one branch was only flagging the directory inodes to refresh their attributes while the other branch used the optional optimization to set mtime to the current time and not go back to the Coda client. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/coda/dir.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c index 3fd085009f26..328d7a684b63 100644 --- a/fs/coda/dir.c +++ b/fs/coda/dir.c @@ -317,13 +317,10 @@ static int coda_rename(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *old_dir, coda_dir_drop_nlink(old_dir); coda_dir_inc_nlink(new_dir); } - coda_dir_update_mtime(old_dir); - coda_dir_update_mtime(new_dir); coda_flag_inode(d_inode(new_dentry), C_VATTR); - } else { - coda_flag_inode(old_dir, C_VATTR); - coda_flag_inode(new_dir, C_VATTR); } + coda_dir_update_mtime(old_dir); + coda_dir_update_mtime(new_dir); } return error; } -- 2.25.1