[linux-cifs-client] Re: NOCMTIME and NOATIME

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:44:58PM -0600, Steve French (smfltc) wrote:
> Shirish noticed that the NOATIME and NOCMTIME flags that cifs sets in 
> new inodes
> in order to prevent writes of the clients file access and file 
> modfication timestamps to the server
> (we intended to use the servers instead) were getting overwritten in the 
> VFS.

How did that happen ?

> Fixing this should help performance and also help applications that are 
> dependent on a more
> consistent view of timestamps (if timestamps are sometimes from server 
> and sometimes
> from client setting them, presumably we have cases in which "time 
> appears to go backwards" if
> the time is off enough between client and server)

Sounds good to me....