RE: ReiserFS patch for updating ctimes of renamed files

["Alex Adriaanse" <alex_a@caltech.edu>]

Hi Hans,

I updated my patch to include Andrew's suggestion of eliminating extra calls
to CURRENT_TIME.  I also finally got a chance to test it out, and it seems
to work.  After applying this patch, ctime gets updated after a rename, and
GNU tar now backs things up properly.  I also could not detect any
filesystem corruption after doing some renames.

Alex

--- fs/reiserfs/namei.c.orig    Mon Aug 25 06:44:43 2003
+++ fs/reiserfs/namei.c Fri Oct 24 17:16:33 2003
@@ -1205,8 +1205,11 @@

     mark_de_hidden (old_de.de_deh + old_de.de_entry_num);
     journal_mark_dirty (&th, old_dir->i_sb, old_de.de_bh);
-    old_dir->i_ctime = old_dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
-    new_dir->i_ctime = new_dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
+    ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+    old_dir->i_ctime = old_dir->i_mtime = ctime;
+    new_dir->i_ctime = new_dir->i_mtime = ctime;
+    old_inode->i_ctime = ctime;
+    reiserfs_update_sd (&th, old_inode);

     if (new_dentry_inode) {
        // adjust link number of the victim
@@ -1215,7 +1218,6 @@
        } else {
            new_dentry_inode->i_nlink--;
        }
-       ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
        new_dentry_inode->i_ctime = ctime;
        savelink = new_dentry_inode->i_nlink;
     }