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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Allow setting file birth time with utimensat()
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:04:47 -0800
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 12:40:09PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> So I'm highly in favor of this patch.  If XFS wants to disallow
> writing the birth time, fine, but I think that behavior should be
> overridable.

Please, no.  We need to have consistent behaviour between at least
Linux local filesystems.  Not "Chris thinks this is a good idea,
while Dave and Ted think its a bad idea, so btrfs supports it and
XFS and ext4 disallow it".