NAK, we went through great trouble to get rid of the nasty layering violation where the VM called file_update_time directly just a short while ago, reintroducing that is a massive step back. Make sure whatever "solution" for your problem you come up with keeps the file update in the filesystem or generic helpers. -- 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