linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i

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Message-ID: <26197.1277851477@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:44:37 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jlayton@...hat.com, mcao@...ibm.com,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, sjayaraman@...e.de,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs

Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org> wrote:

> We already have code in Samba to detect "birthtime"
> (st_btime) as a returned member of a stat struct.

Is it, though?

Googling for st_btime suggests it could also be taken as the time last
archived.  That may just be a NetWareism though.

David
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