On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:22:45PM +0300, Surbhi Palande wrote: > This has another advantage, that it rightfully does not let you > update the access time when the F.S is frozen (touch_atime called > from a read path when the F.S is frozen) Otherwise we also need to > fix this path. In most filesystens atime updates aren't transactional. They just get written into inode->i_atime, and at some later point when the VFS tries to clean the inode it gets writtent back, either through a transaction or not. -- 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