Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 2010 05:12:09 -0700 | | From | Jeremy Allison <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] |
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:38:36PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > I'm curious. Why do you particularly care what interface the kernel uses to > provide you with access to this attribute?
It's a matter of taste. The *BSD's have this right IMHO. It should be part of the stat information. A file timestamp is not an EA. Making it available that way just feels like an appalingly tasteless kludge. It offends the artist in me :-).
> Or do you really want something like BSD's 'btime' which as I understand it > cannot be set. Would that be really useful to you?
It is *already* useful to us, and is widely used in existing code. The occasions when btime is set are relatively rare, and at that point we store it in a separate EA for Windows reporting purposes.
Jeremy.
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