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Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Sep 22 16:18:33 EEST 2006
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 08:05 -0600, Robert Creager wrote:
> Curtis Maloney wrote:
> > Robert Creager wrote:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda6 / jfs defaults 1 1
> >
> > Check the list archives. There have been problems identified in the
> > past with JFS, though I don't recall specifics.
> >
> > Sorry I can't be more specific, but JFS does ring an alarm bell.
>
> That was specific enough for a few hits in the archives, but, it appears
> to be a non-problem these days. I'll check my kernel sources this
> weekend to see if I have the patches, but I suspect I should.
>
> On this file system, when I touch a file in the directory, the directory
> time is updated. When I move a file into the directory, the time is
> updated. Anyone know how procmail does it? I guess I'll have to write
> some code and play around...
The problem is that hardlinking a file to another directory didn't
update the directory's mtime. You most likely don't have that bug fixed
in your kernel.
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