> Furthermore, I'll go ahead and propose the following (simple) semantics: > > 1) birthtime is initialized to the current time when a new inode is > created > > 2) it's settable via the xattr to an arbitrary value > > Either way, the xattr for this ought to be named the same on all > filesystems. Samba shouldn't need to know or care what the underlying > filesystem is, as long as it presents the correct xattr. > > That should make samba happy, and be reasonably simple to implement. Is there any reason to allow birthtime to be set in advance of the current birthtime? ie restore / copy tools clearly need to backdate it, but I'd prefer to see it not advance-able. Greg -- 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
