From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Creation time in XFS
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:55:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4701DD3F.1000104@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73ve9r6v3a.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> writes:
>
>> No XFS does not support creation time. It just has the regular
>> atime,mtime and ctime.
>> There are no plans that I've heard to support it.
>> Not much involved to support it AFAICT but it would either involve
>> changing the ondisk format of the inode or storing it in an EA.
>
> If you ever change the on disk format adding a file type similar to ext3
> to directories could also greatly speed up find in many cases.
>
Sounds a good idea.
In that case a new ondisk directory format (at v2 at the moment).
I think Dave (dgc) might have been mentioning something about that
recently.
--Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 5:55 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 [this message]
2007-10-02 9:25 ` David Chinner
2007-10-02 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-02 21:31 ` David Chinner
2007-10-01 2:59 ` Eric Sandeen
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