Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752566Ab2KLJWP (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:22:15 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:59524 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166Ab2KLJWN (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:22:13 -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> <87obj35k3a.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <87k3tr5g8v.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:22:11 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87k3tr5g8v.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (OGAWA Hirofumi's message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:21:04 +0900") Message-ID: <87fw4f5g70.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: 1026 Lines: 24 OGAWA Hirofumi writes: > Namjae Jeon writes: > >>>> What was difference with XFS, FAT, and MSDOS? >> Okay, the description of patch was lacked, So I will resend patch with >> specifical test reseult with other filesystem. >>> >>> BTW, I recall I checked this, and yes, it is strange. But it is historical. >> "historical" means It is difficult to change ? > > The timestamp handling was not same with unix fs from initial, and FAT > doesn't have inode change timestamp. This historical reason it is not > better to change to same with unix fs, and never be possible to support > inode change timestamp cleanly. I.e. the user visible change without strong reason is the wrong. -- 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/