From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Nilmoni Deb <ndeb@ece.cmu.edu>, viro@math.psu.edu
Cc: bug-fileutils@gnu.org, Remy.Card@linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fs/ext2/namei.c: dir link/unlink bug? [Re: mv changes dir timestamp
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:10:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bsjt59jb.fsf@pixie.eng.ascend.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96L.1010929125713.27868A-100000@d-alg.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96L.1010929125713.27868A-100000@d-alg.ece.cmu.edu> (Nilmoni Deb's message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:09:30 -0400 (EDT)")
Nilmoni Deb <ndeb@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> When I move a directory its time stamp gets changed.
> I am using mv version 4.1 (with mandrake-8.1).
Thanks a lot for reporting that!
This appears to be a bug not in GNU mv, nor even in GNU libc, but
rather in the underlying implementation in the kernel ext2 file system
support. The offending change seems to have come in with a rewrite
of fs/ext2/namei.c that happened sometime between 2.4.4 and 2.4.9.
That file begins with this new comment:
* Rewrite to pagecache. Almost all code had been changed, so blame me
* if the things go wrong. Please, send bug reports to viro@math.psu.edu
This demonstrates that the problem affects ext2, but not tmpfs
using a 2.4.10 kernel (notice that the timestamp doesn't change
in /t, but does in the ext2 /tmp):
$ df -T /tmp /t
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext2 942M 52M 842M 6% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 250M 4.0k 250M 1% /t
$ cd /t && bash /tmp/ext2-link-bug
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 2001-09-30 10:49:38.000000000 +0200 a
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 2001-09-30 10:49:38.000000000 +0200 b
$ cd /tmp && bash /tmp/ext2-link-bug
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 2001-09-30 10:49:43.000000000 +0200 a
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 2001-09-30 10:49:45.000000000 +0200 b
$ cat /tmp/ext2-link-bug
#!/bin/sh
t=rb-$$
mkdir $t
cd $t
mkdir a
ls -gold --full-time a
sleep 2
mv a b
ls -gold --full-time b
cd ..
rm -rf $t
Jim
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Linux pixie 2.4.10 #1 SMP Fri Sep 28 11:50:55 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Gnu C 2.95.4
Gnu make 3.79.1
binutils 2.11.90.0.31
util-linux 2.11h
mount 2.11h
modutils 2.4.8
e2fsprogs 1.25
Linux C Library 2.2.4
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.2.4
Procps 2.0.7
Net-tools 1.60
Console-tools 0.2.3
Sh-utils 2.0.11
Modules Loaded ppp_deflate ppp_async ppp_generic slhc parport_pc lp parport 3c59x
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96L.1010929125713.27868A-100000@d-alg.ece.cmu.edu>
2001-09-30 9:10 ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2001-09-30 18:58 ` fs/ext2/namei.c: dir link/unlink bug? [Re: mv changes dir timestamp Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-30 20:16 ` Nilmoni Deb
2001-10-01 8:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-01 19:13 ` Nilmoni Deb
2001-10-02 3:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04 6:32 ` Bob Proulx
2001-10-04 7:50 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-10-04 17:24 ` Nilmoni Deb
2002-04-01 6:45 ` kernel 2.4.18 exception/bug during cd read operation Nilmoni Deb
2002-04-27 23:08 ` via82cxxx_audio bug in kernel-2.4.18 Nilmoni Deb
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