Linus Torvalds wrote: I personally think that Unix ctime is insane. There is no real reason why "write()" should change mtime, but "chmod" changes ctime. It was just a random decision way back when... I believe it was done that way so "dump" could backup just the inode and not the data if only the inode had changed. Full history here: http://blog.plover.com/Unix/ctime.html -- 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
