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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:46:38 +0100
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org> wrote:

> Looks like it mostly uses the ctime. IMO, the mtime would be a better
> choice since it changes less frequently, but I don't guess that it
> matters very much.

I'd've thought mtime changes more frequently since that's altered when data is
written.  ctime is changed when attributes are changed.

Note that Ext4 appears to have a file creation time field in its inode
(struct ext4_inode::i_crtime[_extra]).  Can Samba be made to use that?

David