On May 25, 2007 16:11 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 06:13 -0400, Cal Peake wrote: > > I found this had already been brought up in the past but couldn't find if > > a definitive decision was made. > > > > Will ext4 include a creation time field? > > Yes, the creation time field will be in ext4. It has already been > included in Ted's e2fsprogs tree and will be included in the kernel when > the nanosecond patch is sent upstream. As a caveat, there is not yet any API to access this. One possibility is to add a virtual extended attribute like user.crtime that returns a struct timespec or similar. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
