Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:59:59 -0400 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 22/29] staging: lustre: llite: add LL_IOC_FUTIMES_3 |
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 06:11:56PM -0400, James Simmons wrote: > From: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@intel.com> > > Add a new regular file ioctl LL_IOC_FUTIMES_3 similar to futimes() but > which allows setting of all three inode timestamps. Use this ioctl > during HSM restore to ensure that the volatile file has the same > timestamps as the file to be restored. Strengthen sanity-hsm test_24a > to check that archive, release, and restore do not change a file's > ctime. Add sanity-hsm test_24e to check that tar will succeed when it > encounters a HSM released file.
This sounds odd, why is this filesystem the only one that needs a "special" futimes? Don't make up new syscalls by making an ioctl please, make a new syscall if that's what you really need!
thanks,
greg k-h
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