On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 10:08 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >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. I know mutt uses atime to detect new messages. But there are better and more reliable ways to do this. > > >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. There are people who prefer noatime over relatime. Using an existing time stamp for creation time is a bad idea IMHO. But when doing this use the least important one. Which is atime. For example ctime is used by backup programs. Anyway when we want to support creation time it should be an additional time stamp. 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
