> drity and then setting the s_dirt flag. And when 'write_super()' is executed to > handle the s_dirt flag, we just update the timestamp and again mark the > superblock buffer as dirty. Seems pointless. It's the way sysv itself does stuff. The timestamp on v7/sys3/sys5 reflects the clock on the box. A lot of ancient boxes with no decent hardware clocks used to reset the system time off the root fs superblock on a loss of power. Alan -- 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