* Kevin Price <[email protected]> [210909 13:59]: > Whether "fallocate -d" should update or preserve ctime seems a good > question to me. From my understanding of MAC times, I'd prefer a > command-line switch to preserve or update ctime if desired, and to > update it by default.
fallocate itself does none of this. It just calls the fallocate syscall. The kernel decides what to do, and if it considers a successful fallocate call a modification of the file or not. If you want this changed, I would suggest you talk to the kernel folks instead, as it makes no sense for util-linux to override kernel policy. Chris
