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From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>,
	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Creation time in XFS
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:31:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071002213153.GI995458@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002093822.GA24907@infradead.org>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:38:22AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:25:10PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > > I don't think it is at all currently:
> > 
> > So what is the point? Forensic analysis?
> 
> Windows wants it, so I guess they added when they had to bump the inode
> version anyway in preparation of a user interface for samba.

<groan>

Can you point me to whatever list this was discussed on? This
is exactly the sort of stuff that needs to be discussed on -fsdevel.

> We probably
> should do the same for XFS when bumping the inode version for the crcs.

Perhaps. I don't really like the idea of adding unused fields to
the on disk structure just in case it is needed in the future....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30 19:24 Creation time in XFS Martin Steigerwald
2007-10-01  0:44 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-10-01  9:30   ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02  5:55     ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-10-02  9:25     ` David Chinner
2007-10-02  9:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-02 21:31         ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-10-01  2:59 ` Eric Sandeen

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