Re: [PATCH] xfs: update ctime and mtime on clone destinatation inodes

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:45:47AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 05:24:56PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We're changing both metadata and data, so we need to update the
> > timestamps.   This follows existing btrfs behavior.
> 
> /me wonders, should the mtime change if we're deduping?  We're
> definitely changing metadata, but we shouldn't be making any
> user-visible changes to the file data.

Good point - we're hitting this from the dedup path as well.
I think we should not be updating mtime for dedupe.
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