--- linux-2.5.4-pre6/fs/reiserfs/stree.c.orig   Mon Feb 11 10:16:19 2002
+++ linux-2.5.4-pre6/fs/reiserfs/stree.c        Mon Feb 11 11:52:37 2002
@@ -1705,6 +1705,10 @@
    }

    if ( n_file_size == 0 || n_file_size < n_new_file_size ) {
+       if (update_timestamps) {
+           p_s_inode->i_mtime = p_s_inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+           reiserfs_update_sd(th, p_s_inode) ;
+       }
       pathrelse(&s_search_path);
       return;
    }