From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Kalpak Shah <kalpak@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
extfs Mailing List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 and creation time
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:25:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070527162553.GI5181@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180089677.27539.4.camel@garfield>
On May 25, 2007 16:11 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 06:13 -0400, Cal Peake wrote:
> > I found this had already been brought up in the past but couldn't find if
> > a definitive decision was made.
> >
> > Will ext4 include a creation time field?
>
> Yes, the creation time field will be in ext4. It has already been
> included in Ted's e2fsprogs tree and will be included in the kernel when
> the nanosecond patch is sent upstream.
As a caveat, there is not yet any API to access this. One possibility is
to add a virtual extended attribute like user.crtime that returns a
struct timespec or similar.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-27 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 10:13 ext4 and creation time Cal Peake
2007-05-25 10:41 ` Kalpak Shah
2007-05-25 12:19 ` Cal Peake
2007-05-27 16:25 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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