From: Robert White <rwhite@pobox.com>
To: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: General Question: ctime, mtime, and xattrs
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:28:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54823FBA.9000707@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE5mzvgrdYSNWSWLrnmHMz2fSgPSJV_ocYr_ZSBGPwLWBshH-g@mail.gmail.com>
Ah...
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...
Never mind. /sigh...
What a maroon. 8-)
On 12/05/2014 03:03 PM, cwillu wrote:
> xattrs are commonly used to implement acls, which wouldn't typically be
> considered a content modification.
> On Dec 5, 2014 4:08 PM, "Robert White" <rwhite@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> So I was reading the wiki on the internal layout. The INODE description
>> says "st_ctime. Also updated when xattrs change."
>>
>> Why isn't changing the xattrs a modification (st_mtime) event?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-05 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2014-12-06 1:39 ` Chris Samuel
2014-12-06 2:35 ` Al Viro
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