linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH-v5 1/5] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

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Message-ID: <20141202210119.GD13618@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:01:19 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v5 1/5] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> One thing that comes to mind is touch/utimes()/utimensat().  Those
> should definitely not result in timestamps being kept only in memory
> for 24h, since the whole point of those calls is to update the times.
> It makes sense for these APIs to dirty the inode for proper writeout.

Not a problem.  Touch/utimes* go through notify_change() and
->setattr, so they won't go through the I_DIRTY_TIME code path.

	      	   	    	    	- Ted
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