Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:48:54 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs |
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:33:10AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > It would be easy enough to do something similar for crtime for cifs > (it may also be possible to do something similar to > i_generation and i_version at least for smb2 but haven't > experimented to see which servers could return something > similar to version and generation). I did have a request for > someone doing a backup application over cifs to return creation > time so at least this would make sense.
We already have code in Samba to detect "birthtime" (st_btime) as a returned member of a stat struct.
This already works on many other platforms, so I'd rather just have Linux stat fixed to work with btime.
Jeremy.
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