Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:39 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Thanks, that explains it. I should have used ext3 or reiser. The problem is I had to reboot a machine with 10.2 and 500 GB drives. ext3 has been doing it's fsck check for 3 hours. I really can not be without my machines for many hours for the over 3 month fsck check. I have gone back to reiser on most systems. I guess I have been lucky. I have never had a data loss(Knock on wood) with reiser. I just do not have 2 more 1TB drives to change the XFS to reiser. The above makes things very clear.
You're changing file systems just because the mtime gets updated?
What are you doing that makes the mtime so important? Maybe you're using it incorrectly, and should be using something else instead?
He's using mtime in a reasonable manner. But XFS is providing an "unreasonable" behavior -- and I'm an advocate of using XFS. In light of this, I'm not so sure if I will be quite so pro-XFS now. changing the timestamp on . just because .. has changed is... very shortsighted, and I would consider it a bug.
In any case, you can set the mtime to whatever you want using touch -m, so you can have your old timestamps back if you want
That's a hassle.
Anders
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