linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/92] cifs: update the ctime on a partial page write

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Message-ID: <20230706-rachsucht-leser-722fdbce7912@brauner>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jul 2023 09:11:59 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.com>,
        Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@...hat.com>,
        Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>,
        Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        samba-technical@...ts.samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/92] cifs: update the ctime on a partial page write

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 11:50:15PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> this looks useful (although we have a few more serious problems where we
> don't keep the cached mtime/ctime/size for files that have RW or RWH leases
> so can update the mtime/ctime/size from the server version of it which can
> be stale in cases where we are caching writes (with leases).
> 
> Which tree do you want this patch to go through?

Plan is to take it all through the vfs tree.