linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] tmpfs: support for file creation time

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Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 11:43:02 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Xavier Roche <xavier.roche@...olia.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tmpfs: support for file creation time

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:43 AM Xavier Roche <xavier.roche@...olia.com> wrote:
>
> Various filesystems (including ext4) now support file creation time.
> This patch adds such support for tmpfs-based filesystems.

What's the odd huge-page noise in this patch?

Other oddities:

    Reply-To: b954973a-b8d1-cab8-63bd-6ea8063de3@...gle.com

WHAT?

And finally - if we really want to treat btime as a first-class entity
and expect things like tmpfs to support it, then we should just bite
the bullet and put it in 'struct inode' along with the other times.

              Linus