btrfs truncate() does not change inode times

Hi all,
I was running fstest (http://www.tuxera.com/community/posix-test-suite/) on btrfs. Only one test failed, and I believe it to be a bug in btrfs. The scenario is as follows:
* crate a file.
* note its times with stat.
* sleep a few seconds
* call truncate() on the file (not ftruncate(). ftruncate() works).
* sync
* note the file's times again with stat.
expected result: ctime and mtime are greater.
actual result: ctime and mtime remain unchanged.

Example:
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# pwd
/test/pjd-fstest-20080816
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# mount | grep /test
/dev/loop0 on /test type btrfs (rw,relatime)
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# touch ctime_test
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# stat ctime_test
File: `ctime_test'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
Device: 29h/41d Inode: 1160 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2012-01-05 14:42:21.067444155 +0200
Modify: 2012-01-05 14:42:21.067444155 +0200
Change: 2012-01-05 14:42:21.067444155 +0200
Birth: -
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# strace ./fstest truncate ctime_test 200 execve("./fstest", ["./fstest", "truncate", "ctime_test", "200"], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x17c9000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f412616d000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=47545, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 47545, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f4126161000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\260\24\342e2\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1951736, ...}) = 0
mmap(0x3265e00000, 3773688, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x3265e00000 mprotect(0x3265f8f000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0

mmap(0x326618f000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x18f000) = 0x326618f000
mmap(0x3266194000, 21752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x3266194000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4126160000
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f412615e000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f412615e720) = 0
mprotect(0x326618f000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x326581e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f4126161000, 47545)           = 0
umask(0)                                = 022
truncate("ctime_test", 200)             = 0

fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f412616c000 write(1, "0\n", 20
) = 2
exit_group(0) = ?
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# sleep 2
[root@fedora-client pjd-fstest-20080816]# stat ctime_test
File: `ctime_test'
Size: 200 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 29h/41d Inode: 1160 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2012-01-05 14:42:21.067444155 +0200
Modify: 2012-01-05 14:42:21.067444155 +0200
Change: 2012-01-05 14:42:21.067444155 +0200
Birth: -

I followed your example, but got the expected result:

[root@lizf pjd-fstest-20090130-RC]# stat ctime_test
File: "ctime_test"
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 普通空文件
Device: 1bh/27d Inode: 1589980 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2012-01-06 10:27:53.900570365 +0800
Modify: 2012-01-06 10:27:53.900570365 +0800
Change: 2012-01-06 10:27:53.900570365 +0800
[root@lizf pjd-fstest-20090130-RC]# ./fstest truncate ctime_test 200 0
[root@lizf pjd-fstest-20090130-RC]# sleep 2
[root@lizf pjd-fstest-20090130-RC]# stat ctime_test
File: "ctime_test"
Size: 200 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 普通文件
Device: 1bh/27d Inode: 1589980 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2012-01-06 10:27:53.900570365 +0800
Modify: 2012-01-06 10:28:12.238569720 +0800
Change: 2012-01-06 10:28:12.238569720 +0800
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