Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:09:49 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] | From | Greg Freemyer <> |
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> 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
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