linux-ext4 - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10276] New: directory ctime not updated by rename

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Message-ID: <20080318175330.GA13555@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:53:30 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	lasse-kernelbug-2008@...l.plastictree.net
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10276] New: directory ctime not updated by rename

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:46:09PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Do we agree that this is a bug?  If so, is it a VFS thing or a per-fs
> > thing?
> 
> The latter; all control over timestamps on directory operations is in
> filesystems.  Which filesystem it is, BTW?  E.g. ext2 has

Doh.  ext3...  OK, that's a bug; direct update of directory entry by
                new_de->inode = cpu_to_le32(old_inode->i_ino);
needs an update of timestamps of new_dir.
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