From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:55:49 +0100 Message-ID: <22697.1277470549@redhat.com> References: <4C24A606.5040001@suse.de> <1277220214-3597-1-git-send-email-sjayaraman@suse.de> <9822.1277312573@redhat.com> Cc: dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Steve French , linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Suresh Jayaraman Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C24A606.5040001-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > I think the creation time is currently being ignored as we won't be able > to accomodate in POSIX stat struct. The FS-Cache interface doesn't use the POSIX stat struct, but it could be really useful to save it and use it for cache coherency inside the kernel. Out of interest, what does Samba do when it comes to generating a creation time for UNIX where one does not exist? David