Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ph. Marek" <> | Subject | ramfs and directory modification time | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:05:03 +0100 |
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Hello everybody,
I believe that I found a problem regarding ramfs and directory modification times.
Observe: $ /tmp# mkdir newdir $ /tmp# mount -t ramfs none newdir $ /tmp# cd newdir/ $ /tmp/newdir# mkdir sub $ /tmp/newdir# cd sub $ /tmp/newdir/sub# ls -la --full-time total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-02-23 14:01:37.573655160 +0100 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-02-23 14:01:33.221316816 +0100 .. $ /tmp/newdir/sub# touch a-new-file $ /tmp/newdir/sub# ls -la --full-time total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-02-23 14:01:37.573655160 +0100 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-02-23 14:01:33.221316816 +0100 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-02-23 14:01:48.019067216 +0100 a-new-file
On a tmpfs or other (disk-based) filesystems (ext3) it works correctly. Is that a design wish, that ramfs is kept as simple as possible?
Nevertheless I believe that should be fixed, as everything that relies on the directory mtime won't work on an ramfs.
This is 2.6.26-rc4, btw, on x86.
Please CC me as I'm not subscribed (although I surely will have a look in the archives, too).
Regards,
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