From 39fe7557b4d6ab82bafaa7b92b98b806afe6ad0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:20 -0700 Subject: ext2: Do not update mtime of a moved directory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit One of our users is complaining that his backup tool is upset on ext2 (while it's happy on ext3, xfs, ...) because of the mtime change. The problem is: mkdir foo mkdir bar mkdir foo/a Now under ext2: mv foo/a foo/b changes mtime of 'foo/a' (foo/b after the move). That does not really make sense and it does not happen under any other filesystem I've seen. More complicated is: mv foo/a bar/a This changes mtime of foo/a (bar/a after the move) and it makes some sense since we had to update parent directory pointer of foo/a. But again, no other filesystem does this. So after some thoughts I'd vote for consistency and change ext2 to behave the same as other filesystems. Do not update mtime of a moved directory. Specs don't say anything about it (neither that it should, nor that it should not be updated) and other common filesystems (ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, fat, ...) don't do it. So let's become more consistent. Spotted by ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de, initial fix by Jörn Engel. Reported-by: Cc: Cc: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext2/ext2.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ext2/ext2.h') diff --git a/fs/ext2/ext2.h b/fs/ext2/ext2.h index f2e5811936d..d988a718aed 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/ext2.h +++ b/fs/ext2/ext2.h @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ extern struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * ext2_find_entry (struct inode *,struct qstr *, extern int ext2_delete_entry (struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *, struct page *); extern int ext2_empty_dir (struct inode *); extern struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * ext2_dotdot (struct inode *, struct page **); -extern void ext2_set_link(struct inode *, struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *, struct page *, struct inode *); +extern void ext2_set_link(struct inode *, struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *, struct page *, struct inode *, int); /* ialloc.c */ extern struct inode * ext2_new_inode (struct inode *, int); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258