From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id l925tIxJ028639 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:55:20 -0700 Message-ID: <4701DD3F.1000104@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:55:11 +1000 From: Timothy Shimmin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Creation time in XFS References: <200709302124.38164.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <470042DC.2040009@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Andi Kleen Cc: Martin Steigerwald , xfs@oss.sgi.com Andi Kleen wrote: > Timothy Shimmin 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