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From: "Chuck Lever" <cel@kernel.org>
To: "Olga Kornievskaia" <aglo@umich.edu>
Cc: "Olga Kornievskaia" <okorniev@redhat.com>,
	"Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	"Jeff Layton" <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, neilb@brown.name,
	"Dai Ngo" <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>, "Tom Talpey" <tom@talpey.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] nfsd: update mtime/ctime on synchronous COPY with delegated attributes
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:49:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79484488-0f0b-4ddd-99f6-6ba15373573b@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN-5tyG6JFJ=e9Jkmk0TnzvszWXVneDnDaceA_AOhDtK=ScVog@mail.gmail.com>


On Wed, Apr 8, 2026, at 11:24 AM, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 9:59 AM Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2026, at 7:50 PM, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
>> > COPY should update destination file's mtime/ctime upon completion.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>
>>
>> Should 2/3 also carry a Fixes: tag?
>
> My bad. I guess it should be the same as the first patch. But I now
> also wonder if the update should be done based on the status of
> nfsd4_do_copy? But this is where I think nfsd4_do_copy can return say
> ENOSPC but it would have modified the file as well. So I'm not clear
> if we need to special case return values?

Thinking aloud:

If you updated the time stamps in _nfsd_copy_file_range() wouldn't
that take care of both the sync and async cases, and you could
determine precisely whether a data change had been made to the
destination file?


-- 
Chuck Lever

  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-08 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-07 23:50 [PATCH 0/3] nfsd update mtime/ctime on CLONE/COPY with delegated attritutes Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-07 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] nfsd: update mtime/ctime on CLONE in presense of delegated attributes Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-08 13:53   ` Chuck Lever
2026-04-08 15:08     ` Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-07 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] nfsd: update mtime/ctime on synchronous COPY with " Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-08 13:54   ` Chuck Lever
2026-04-08 15:24     ` Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-08 16:49       ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2026-04-07 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] nfsd: update mtime/ctime on asynchronous " Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-08 14:05   ` Chuck Lever
2026-04-08 15:43     ` Olga Kornievskaia
2026-04-08 11:13 ` [PATCH 0/3] nfsd update mtime/ctime on CLONE/COPY with delegated attritutes Jeff Layton
2026-04-08 11:17 ` Jeff Layton

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