File ctime/mtime update inconsistencies

[Atte Peltomaki]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:16:51PM +0300, Atte Peltomaki wrote:
> Problem: neither ctime nor mtime attributes are consistently updated
> when new files are created or existing ones replaced. 

Another thing I would like to address is timestamps for large files. In
addition to consistently updating c/mtime, I think it would make sense
to update the stamp also *after* file transfer has completed. This would
allow eg. rsync to identify changed files without expensive
checksumming. 

Would these changes be accepted in mainstream, if I send patches?
(Against 3.2).

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