On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> >> As for _updating_ create time, isn't that sort of defeating the purpose >> of create time? > > Yes, you would think so, wouldn't you. Unfortunately that's > the way Windows behaves (create time can be updated) so that's > what we have to emulate. If does indeed make no sense (it's > just another timestamp meta-data that can't be used for auditing > at that point). Updating create time does make it harder to use for auditing, but I expect that 20 years ago when this was added someone was thinking about making sure you could preserve all attributes on backup/restore especially for a system restore after disk failure - and end up with the same file metadata as when you started. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
