Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:40:54 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I think it's too late to fix this in 2.4. If we did, a person > > could develop and test an application on 2.4.21, ship it, then > > find that it fails on millions of 2.4.17 machines. > > Oh, please reconsider that! Doesn't loss of modification time > approach data loss? Surely we'll continue to fix any data loss > issues in 2.4, and be grateful if you fixed this mmap modtime loss.
It doesnt approach data loss, when doing incremental backups it *is* data loss. Ditto with rsync --newer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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