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SubjectRe: [NFS] [PATCH] NFS server does not update mtime on setattr request
J. Bruce Fields wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:50:31AM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote:
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>>The Red Hat BZ number is 193621.
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>"You are not authorized to access bug #193621", it tells me....
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Hmm. That ones seems to be restricted for some reason. I think that
this happens when we get escalated bugzillas from customers.


>>The description is that when zero length files are copied, even over
>>an existing zero length file, the mtime on the target file does not
>>change.
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>Is the server-side patch sufficient on its own?
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The server side patch isn't quite sufficient on its own. A RHEL-4 patch
is also required for the client side. I could construct the RHEL-4 patch
so that it alone would be sufficient to address the particular problem
that that customer is having, but that isn't the entire situation.
Non-Linux clients would still have a problem with the current upstream
Linux server. For example, in my testing, a Solaris 10 client mounting
an FC-5 server fails. When running the attached script, the mtime on
the file, bar, should change by about 1 minute, 3 times.

Thanx...

ps
#!/bin/sh

rm -f foo bar

set -x

touch foo

cp foo bar

stat --format="%n %y" foo bar

sleep 60

cp foo bar

stat --format="%n %y" foo bar

sleep 60

cp foo bar

stat --format="%n %y" foo bar

sleep 60

rm foo

touch foo

cp foo bar

stat --format="%n %y" foo bar
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