From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262237AbTJNHMy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:12:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262240AbTJNHMx (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:12:53 -0400 Received: from a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.173.25]:50703 "EHLO a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262237AbTJNHMw (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:12:52 -0400 X-mailer: xrn 9.03-beta-14 From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Subject: Re: ReiserFS patch for updating ctimes of renamed files To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Newsgroups: linux.kernel In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:57:17 GMT Message-ID: <2003Oct14.085717@a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser: >Andrew Morton wrote: >>Yes, John has a point but we're not going to go and change all the other >>filesystems (are we?). >> >why not? It is correct therefor.... Many years ago we had the same problem with ext2: it did not change ctime on rename, so GNU tar did not pick up the renamed files on incremental backup. Fortunately a few kernel versions later ext2 changed to the current behaviour (unfortunately I don't remember the kernel version). IIRC our sysadmin submitted a bug report for GNU tar at the time, and got the answer that GNU tar would not change. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html