linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 03/14] exfat: add inode operations

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:25:22 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, sj1557.seo@...sung.com,
        linkinjeon@...il.com,
        Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 03/14] exfat: add inode operations

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:28 AM Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com> wrote:

> +       /* set FILE_INFO structure using the acquired struct exfat_dentry */
> +       exfat_set_entry_time(sbi, &inode->i_ctime,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.create_time,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.create_date,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.create_tz);
> +       exfat_set_entry_time(sbi, &inode->i_mtime,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.modify_time,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.modify_date,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.modify_tz);
> +       exfat_set_entry_time(sbi, &inode->i_atime,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.access_time,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.access_date,
> +                       &ep->dentry.file.access_tz);

I wonder if i_ctime should be handled differently. With statx() we finally have
a concept of "file creation time" in "stx_btime". so it would make sense to
store dentry.file.create_time in there rather than in i_ctime.

It seems that traditionally most file systems that cannot store ctime separately
just set i_ctime and i_mtime both to what is is modify_time here, though
fat and hpfs use i_ctime to refer to creation time.

      Arnd