Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] fs/sysv: stop using write_super and s_dirt | | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | | Date | Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:44:50 +0300 |
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On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > drity and then setting the s_dirt flag. And when 'write_super()' is executed to > > handle the s_dirt flag, we just update the timestamp and again mark the > > superblock buffer as dirty. Seems pointless. > > It's the way sysv itself does stuff. The timestamp on v7/sys3/sys5 > reflects the clock on the box. A lot of ancient boxes with no decent > hardware clocks used to reset the system time off the root fs superblock > on a loss of power.
Oh, OK, thanks for the info. Do you think I need to take more efforts to preserve the behavior?
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