On Sunday 2010-07-18 10:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >Adding Uli to the Cc list to make sure this system call is useful >for glibc / can be exported by it. Otherwise it's rather pointless >to add it. > >> (6) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such as >> creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen) [Jeremy >> Allison, Bernd Schubert] > >How is this different from (1) and (4)? (4), the inode generation number, need not be related to time. >> (8) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A filesystem >> can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if that isn't >> available. > >What for? Given xstat.otime=0, how would you determine whether the file is really tagged with a date of 1970, or whether it's just the fs which didnot store this kind of information. -- 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
