Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:48:54 -0700
From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
       jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
       sjayaraman@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and
	i_generation available by xattrs
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:33:10AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> 
> It would be easy enough to do something similar for crtime for cifs
> (it may also be possible to do something similar to
> i_generation and i_version at least for smb2 but haven't
> experimented to see which servers could return something
> similar to version and generation).  I did have a request for
> someone doing a backup application over cifs to return creation
> time so at least this would make sense.

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

This already works on many other platforms, so I'd
rather just have Linux stat fixed to work with
btime.

Jeremy.
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