Re: [PATCH v4 18/19] btrfs: only dirty the inode in btrfs_update_time if something was changed

From: David Sterba
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 13:01:36 EST


On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 07:05:55AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At this point, we know that "now" and the file times may differ, and we
> suspect that the i_version has been flagged to be bumped. Attempt to
> bump the i_version, and only mark the inode dirty if that actually
> occurred or if one of the times was updated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>