On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But the fact is, th Unix ctime semantics are insane and largely > useless. There's a damn good reason almost nobody uses ctime under > unix. > > So what I'm suggesting is that we have a flag - either per-process or > per-mount - that just says "use windows semantics for ctime". When abusing an existing time stamp use atime not ctime please. ctime has it's uses. atime was just a mistake and is nearly useless. And with noatime we already have creation time semantics for atime. utz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
