Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IIUC, updating mtime for a write is also an attribute change, and that > affects ctime. According to the stat(2) manpage: You're right. Okay, ctime is the more frequently changed. > > Note that Ext4 appears to have a file creation time field in its inode > > (struct ext4_inode::i_crtime[_extra]). Can Samba be made to use that? > > Is it exposed to userspace in any (standard) way? It would be handy to > have that. While we're wishing...it might also be nice to have a > standard way to get at the i_generation from userspace too. Not at present, but it's something that could be exported by ioctl() or getxattr(). David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
