Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751971Ab2KLH6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:58:06 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:59492 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182Ab2KLH6E (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:58:04 -0500 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Namjae Jeon Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amit Sahrawat Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fat: fix time updates for create and delete References: <1352642278-2730-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> <874nkw86jz.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <87sj8f5k4m.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:58:01 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87sj8f5k4m.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (OGAWA Hirofumi's message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:57:13 +0900") Message-ID: <87obj35k3a.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 30 OGAWA Hirofumi writes: > Namjae Jeon writes: > >> 2012/11/12, OGAWA Hirofumi : >>> Namjae Jeon writes: >>> >>>> Correctly update modification and status change time in case of >>>> file/directory removal and creation. >>> >>> This changelog just explain "what", and it doesn't explain "why". Please >>> explain why we need this change. >>> >>> IIRC, timestamp handling in FAT driver is strange historically. Anyway, >>> FAT doesn't have "inode change time". It is "creation time" in FAT. >> Hi. OGAWA. >> I made this patch after comparing timestamp handlings with MSDOS and XFS. >> Should timestamp handling of FAT be same with MSDOS ? >> Am I missing ? > > What was difference with XFS, FAT, and MSDOS? BTW, I recall I checked this, and yes, it is strange. But it is historical. -- OGAWA Hirofumi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/