From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:34:10 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Clients will typically precede a DELEGRETURN for a delegation with
> delegated timestamp with a SETATTR to set the timestamps on the server
> to match what the client has.
>
> knfsd implements this by using the nfsd_setattr() infrastructure, which
> will set ATTR_CTIME on any update that goes to notify_change(). This is
> problematic as it means that the client will get a spurious ctime
> updates when updating the atime.
>
> [...]
Applied to nfsd-testing, thanks!
Because this patch touches generic attribute handling, I'm targeting
it for v6.18.
[1/1] nfsd: don't set the ctime on delegated atime updates
commit: aaf2b07a551950a6e4deab07f6cf73c4a6592a35
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Chuck Lever
