On Mon, 2023-08-07 at 15:38 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > 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. Hi Jeff, This patch causes a gnulib test failure: $ ~/sources/lfs/grep-3.11/gnulib-tests/test-stat-time test-stat-time.c:141: assertion 'statinfo[0].st_mtime < statinfo[2].st_mtime || (statinfo[0].st_mtime == statinfo[2].st_mtime && (get_stat_mtime_ns (&statinfo[0]) < get_stat_mtime_ns (&statinfo[2])))' failed Aborted (core dumped) The source code of the test: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-stat-time.c Is this an expected change? > 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"); > >