On Thursday 2010-07-22 17:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> >>> It is? It's called crtime in Ext4. st_btime, however, would be compatible >>> with BSD's stat, and Samba would just use it by way of autoconf magic if it >>> appeared. >> >> Samba has the following check: >> # recent FreeBSD, NetBSD have creation timestamps called birthtime: >> AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtimespec.tv_nsec]) >> AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtime], AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtimensec])) >> >> and the supporting code around that. "birth" might also be >> where the "b" comes from :-) > >Oh wow. And all of this just convinces me that we should _not_ do any >of this, since clearly it's all totally useless and people can't even >agree on a name. > >Let's wait five years and see if there is actually any consensus on it >being needed and used at all, rather than rush into something just >because "we can". There just is no way currently to store creation times. Abusing ctimes for write-once archives also stops working once you rsync it from one place to another. (Which brings me to the side question of why the ctime isn't settable through futimesnat.) -- 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
