Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Allow setting file birth time with utimensat()

Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-19T04:04:51Z

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 12:40:09PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> So I'm highly in favor of this patch. If XFS wants to disallow
> writing the birth time, fine, but I think that behavior should be
> overridable.

Please, no. We need to have consistent behaviour between at least
Linux local filesystems. Not "Chris thinks this is a good idea,
while Dave and Ted think its a bad idea, so btrfs supports it and
XFS and ext4 disallow it".