From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: General Question: ctime, mtime, and xattrs
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:39:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1670463.A2AUh24FHt@quad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54823FBA.9000707@pobox.com>
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 03:28:58 PM Robert White wrote:
> I've been thinking "ctime" is/was (still) "create time". It seems that
> somewhere in the last couple decades it became "change time"; Or that I
> picked up that incorrect "create time" idea back in the UNIX Sys V R 3
> days and just never had cause to think about it again...
Sadly there's never been a creation time in Linux that you can get with a
standard system call, there was an attempt 4-5 years ago to get xstat merged
that would include creation time from filesystems that support it (like ext4)
but it never went anywhere (for a variety of reasons).
LWN article on the patch set:
https://lwn.net/Articles/394298/
Linus knocking it back:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/22/249
FreeBSD has:
st_birthtim Time when the inode was created.
No idea when that was added!
All the best,
Chris
--
Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
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2014-12-05 22:08 General Question: ctime, mtime, and xattrs Robert White
[not found] ` <CAE5mzvgrdYSNWSWLrnmHMz2fSgPSJV_ocYr_ZSBGPwLWBshH-g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-05 23:28 ` Robert White
2014-12-06 1:39 ` Chris Samuel [this message]
2014-12-06 2:35 ` Al Viro
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