Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:13:00 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: add a O_NOMTIME flag
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Hi!

> BTW When you "swap" to a file the mtime doesn't get updated.  No one seems to
> complain about that.  I guess it is a rather narrow use-case though.

Actually yes, I'd like to complain.

It was not swap, it was mount -o loop, but I guess that's the same
case. Then rsync refused to work on that file... and being on slow ARM
system it took me a while to figure out WTF is going on.

So yes, we have problems with mtime, and yes, they matter.
									Pavel
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