From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, sjayaraman@suse.de,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:48:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100628164854.GA9979@samba1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikkaRYyUfHILDCKYzXdLi9ORuQs05Rf9TScF_Tz@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 16:26 [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs David Howells
[not found] ` <20100628162626.6026.26679.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-28 16:33 ` Steve French
2010-06-28 16:48 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2010-06-28 17:04 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <AANLkTilkfPkvyuQvN9zKrrY3DhJZ5iUfa5RXfErFwTiA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-28 17:14 ` Jeremy Allison
2010-06-28 19:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-29 22:44 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <26197.1277851477-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 22:59 ` Jeremy Allison
2010-06-29 23:31 ` David Howells
2010-06-28 19:08 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <19AAF9AA-2445-4C73-808B-4AD9C5C7E769-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-28 19:38 ` David Howells
2010-06-28 19:41 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <AANLkTikhZn15GmOTe-fsM2IgxHFxtZIRBOb_4kPWSR4E-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 18:13 ` Andreas Dilger
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