Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 01:30:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I'm wondering whether the data are transferred from the VFS to ext4
> necessarily within the same openat system call or could just be kept
> in the VFS as long as they are not needed elsewhere, i.e. the VFS
> behaving like a cache. In the latter case, since the VFS doesn't
> have a notion of birth timestamp (from the code I've read), a bug
> in the VFS code could explain the behavior I had observed. This is
> the only explanation I could have.
At this point, you should seriously consider asking the Linux Kernel
Mailing List, or some other place where people might know the answers
to these questions.
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