linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 not updating ctime on truncate ?

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Date:	Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:40:51 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>
CC:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@...s-3g.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 not updating ctime on truncate ?

Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran Linux POSIX filesystem test suite released by  Szabolcs Szakacsits
> on ext4. I get one failure on ext4.
> 
> Failed Test                     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of
> Failed
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /root/posix/tests/truncate/00.t               21    1   4.76%  15
> 
> Looking at the test, its complaining that ext4 is not updating ctime
> for truncate. Is this a known issue ?

Solofo sent a patch for this just yesterday:

[PATCH] ext4: update ctime and mtime for truncate with extents.

-Eric
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