There's a hint in the archives about this, but nothing concrete and
google doesn't find anything helpful to me.
I'm running Centos 4.2 with kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.106.unsupported and
jfsutils-1.1.10-3.2 from the centosplus distribution, with a jfs
partition for my maildir mail spool, accessed using the dovecot IMAP
server. It seems that dovecot doesn't properly track new incoming email,
apparently because the modification time on .../Maildir/new doesn't get
updated when a new message is linked into it from .../Maildir/tmp.
A quick manual test gives:
$ mkdir a b
$ cd b
$ ls -al
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1 Feb 16 15:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 72 Feb 16 15:51 ..
$ touch c
$ ls -la
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8 Feb 16 15:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 72 Feb 16 15:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 15:56 c
$ ls -al ../a
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1 Feb 16 15:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 72 Feb 16 15:51 ..
$ ln c ../a
$ ls -la ../a
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8 Feb 16 15:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 72 Feb 16 15:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Feb 16 15:56 c
showing that directory "a" doesn't have the modification date changed when
file "c" is linked into it from "b". On an ext3 filesystem however:
$ mkdir a b
$ cd b
ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 james james 4096 Feb 16 17:00 .
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:00 ..
$ touch c
$ ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 james james 4096 Feb 16 17:01 .
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:00 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 james james 0 Feb 16 17:01 c
$ ls -al ../a
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 james james 4096 Feb 16 17:00 .
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:00 ..
$ ln c ../a
$ ls -al ../a
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 james james 4096 Feb 16 17:02 .
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:00 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 2 james james 0 Feb 16 17:01 c
and the last mod date on "a" is changed. UFS on FreeBSD exhibits the same
behaviour as ext3.
Is this a known problem? Documented behaviour? Is there a way to get
the behaviour I want?
James
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