linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Allow setting file birth time with utimensat()

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Date:   Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:04:47 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Boaz Harrosh <openosd@...il.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux btrfs Developers List <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Allow setting file birth time with utimensat()

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".