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Re: vnd cgd disks don't mark underlying file as modified



"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> writes:

> I have a vnd+cgd file system.  Even if I write to it, the underlying
> file is not marked as modified, and hence is not backed up by
> incremental dumps.  This strikes me as a bug.  (This is amd64-current.)

I think it's just a vnd bug, not a vnd+cgd bug - I have the same issue
with the backing files for vnds exported from dom0 to a domU.

A tricky question is if the mtime should change on every write, instead
of just at close.

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