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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] curious mtime of cwfs
Date: Sat,  2 Mar 2013 16:08:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63188117309934af43024565d042f5a6@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130225103415.GA21986@dinah>

>  From stat(5):
>
>     For a plain file, mtime is the time of the most recent
>     create, open with truncation, or write; for a directory
>     it is the time of the most recent remove, create, or
>     wstat of a file in the directory.

does this apply to synthetic file servers as well?  does any
one know the reasoning behind this change?  at first
glance, it seems like a relatively large impact considering
the potential gain.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-02 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-25  1:04 arisawa
2013-02-25  1:17 ` arisawa
2013-02-25  5:55   ` cinap_lenrek
2013-02-25  7:24     ` arisawa
2013-02-25  8:23       ` cinap_lenrek
2013-02-25 10:17         ` arisawa
2013-02-25 10:34         ` Anthony Martin
2013-02-25 11:27           ` cinap_lenrek
2013-02-25 11:39           ` arisawa
2013-03-02 21:08           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-03-03  3:30             ` arisawa

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