The patch titled splice: update mtime and atime on files has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is splice-update-mtime-and-atime-on-files.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: splice: update mtime and atime on files From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Splice should update the modification and access times on regular files just like read and write. Not updating mtime will confuse backup tools, etc... This patch only adds the time updates for regular files. For pipes and other special files that splice touches the need for updating the times is less clear. Let's discuss and fix that separately. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/splice.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/splice.c~splice-update-mtime-and-atime-on-files fs/splice.c --- a/fs/splice.c~splice-update-mtime-and-atime-on-files +++ a/fs/splice.c @@ -502,8 +502,10 @@ ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct len = left; ret = __generic_file_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags); - if (ret > 0) + if (ret > 0) { *ppos += ret; + file_accessed(in); + } return ret; } @@ -963,8 +965,10 @@ generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_in mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); ret = file_remove_suid(out); - if (!ret) + if (!ret) { + file_update_time(out); ret = splice_from_pipe_feed(pipe, &sd, pipe_to_file); + } mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); } while (ret > 0); splice_from_pipe_end(pipe, &sd); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch splice-update-mtime-and-atime-on-files.patch vfs-fix-vfs_rename_dir-for-fs_rename_does_d_move-filesystems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html