Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:13:13 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] fs/sysv: stop using write_super and s_dirt |
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> 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.
Alan
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