On Friday 2010-07-30 23:22, utz lehmann wrote: >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. MUAs make use of atime. >And with noatime we already have creation time semantics for atime. noatime was a late afterthought, and because it can interfere with some programs, relatime came along too. -- 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
