Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Dec 2012 10:08:28 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Update atime from future. |
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:56:39AM +0800, yangsheng wrote: > Relatime should update the inode atime if it is more than a day in the > future. The original problem seen was a tarball that had a bad atime, > but could also happen if someone fat-fingers a "touch". The future > atime will never be fixed. Before the relatime patch, the future atime > would be updated back to the current time on the next access. > > Only update the atime if it is more than one day in the future. That > avoids thrashing the atime if the clocks on clients of a network fs are > only slightly out of sync, but still allows fixing bogus atimes. > > Signed-off-by: yangsheng <sickamd@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: adilger@dilger.ca > --- > fs/inode.c | 10 +++++++++- > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.
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