--- 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;
     }

.