[Ocfs2-users] Time bug?

[Sunil Mushran]

Could be that those writes are odirect. We avoid updating
the mtime on non-extending odirect writes so as to avoid
a performance hit. This is documented in the ocfs2 faq.

Miguel Molowny Lopez wrote:
> Hi all,
> we are using OCSF2 in 2 SUSE SLES10 SP1 boxes.
> We are running xen on these boxes and we have configured ocfs2 as the 
> filesystem to
> contain the images of our virtual machines.
>
> We have a problem with the last modified file date in ocfs2.
>
> Executing ls -la command in the boxes we have the following result:
>
> BOX1: ls -la /ocfs-filesystem/hda:
> -rw------- 1 root root 18253611008 Oct 22 14:33 /ocfs-filesystem/hda
> BOX2: ls -la /ocfs-filesystem/hda:
> -rw------- 1 root root 18253611008 Oct  8 19:52 /ocfs-filesystem/hda
>
> The positive thing is that if I do the md5sum of the file in the two 
> boxes the result is the same.
> Is this a bug?
> Is there any patch to fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance - Miguel
>