Enable multigrain timestamps, which should ensure that there is an apparent change to the timestamp whenever it has been written after being actively observed via getattr. For ext4, we only need to enable the FS_MGTIME flag. Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index b54c70e1a74e..cb1ff47af156 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -7279,7 +7279,7 @@ static struct file_system_type ext4_fs_type = { .init_fs_context = ext4_init_fs_context, .parameters = ext4_param_specs, .kill_sb = kill_block_super, - .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP, + .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME, }; MODULE_ALIAS_FS("ext4"); -- 2.41.0