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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 1995 20:28:33 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Changed information for PR kern/260
Message-ID:  <199503221028.UAA10199@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>pager is not be sufficient to update the time. I just spoke with Kirk on the
>phone about this...after a half hour of talking about how the VFS layer could
>be changed to better implement our vnode paging, the conclusion about how to
>solve this problem in the short term was to use VOP_SETATTR() at unmap time
>(if the file had been written to) to update the modification time.

If you call it a lot it is more important for it to be fast.  I've changed
ufs_setattr() to not immediately write the times to disk.  It doesn't
immediately write changed uids or gids, and I think these are more
important that the times.

Bruce


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