Re: [PATCH-v4 1/7] vfs: split update_time() into update_time() and write_time()
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2014-11-27 14:41:16
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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2014-11-27 14:41:16
Also in:
linux-btrfs, linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:23:28AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
As mentioned last round please move the addition of the is_readonly operation to the first thing in the series, so that the ordering makes more sense.
OK, will fix.
Second I think this patch is incorrect for XFS - XFS uses ->update_time to set the time stampst in the dinode. These two need to be coherent as we can write out a dirty inode any time, so it needs to have the timestamp uptodate. Third update_time now calls mark_inode_dirty unconditionally, while previously it wasn't called when ->update_time was set. At least for XFS that's a major change in behavior as XFS never used VFS dirty tracking for metadata updates.
Thanks, I'll fix both of the above. - Ted