Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Support btime and other NFSv4 specific attributes

[Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>]

On 27 May 2025, at 17:54, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 09:15 -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>> Hey Trond and Anna - this series looked ready to go, but seems to
>> have never gotten upstream.  Was there a problem that needed work?
>>
>> I'd like to rebase these and submit them, but will hold off if its a
>> non-starter..
>>
>
> I believe the main issue raised at the time when we submitted all these
> attributes was that we had the ioctl() to retrieve and set them. The
> request from the community was that we use statx() to retrieve, and
> then add a new system call to set them.
>
> btime already has support in statx(), so there was relatively little
> work needed to convert these patches to use it.
>
> However for the other attributes (Windows Hidden, System, Archive
> attributes and the backup time) the main issue was adding the new
> system call to set them all. That work is yet to be done due to lack of
> developer time.
>
> If you have time to revive these patches and push the btime changes
> upstream, then that would be very welcome from our perspective. I'm
> happy to help in any capacity that I can.

Great news!  I did rebase and post just the btime portion, it needs a v2 so
I'll work on moving it along.

Ben