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Message-Id: <E1GVYnq-00004v-00@intern.SerNet.DE>
Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:23:12 +0200
From:	Björn JACKE <bjacke@...net.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	ext3-users@...hat.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: creation time stamps for ext4 ?

On 2006-10-05 at 12:55 -0400 Theodore Tso sent off:
> > I've given this some thought for adding as part of the nsec timestamp
> > patch.  That is more feasable if we move the nsec ctime into the main
> > inode to double as the version field.
> 
> Shoehorning an extra creation time field into the inode is relatively
> easy, but it's also necessary to have system calls to get and set the
> creation time.  The stat structure doesn't have room for the creation
> time, so that means a new version of the stat structure exported the
> kernel, and a new version of the stat structure exported by glibc.
> 
> So there are VFS and glibc changes necessary to make this be useful.
> But that doesn't prevent us from reserving space in the inode and
> starting to fill it in with the creation time, although it may be
> quite a while before it will be easily available to user programs like
> Samba.

yes, probably. But it's a reasonable effort to start that at some 
time. It's good if ext3 developers have it in mind already now.
Should I open a feature request at bugzilla.kernel.org for the needed 
VFS changes?

Bjoern
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