From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve French Subject: Volume Creation Time Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 22:28:14 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: samba-techcnical@lists.samba.org To: linux-fsdevel Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f171.google.com ([209.85.221.171]:62072 "EHLO mail-qy0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752733Ab0ETD2P (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 23:28:15 -0400 Received: by qyk1 with SMTP id 1so11418772qyk.5 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 20:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: In testing the Samba server with Linux kernel client, I noticed that the SMB2 network operation which returns the volume serial number, FileFsVolumeInformation (which I was using to get a unique id for the volume via the VolumeSerialNumber) also is supposed to retun a "VolumeCreationTime" - this seems like a reasonable thing, but I don't know how to get this from ext4 or generally from the Linux VFS. Any ideas how Samba server could get a reasonable estimate of "VolumeCreationTime" for a particular Linux volume? -- Thanks, Steve