Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754637Ab0GaIIO (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:08:14 -0400 Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:54082 "EHLO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752873Ab0GaIIK (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:08:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:08:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: utz lehmann cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeremy Allison , Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de, David Howells , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsde@jasper.es Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] In-Reply-To: <1280524978.2452.9.camel@segv.aura.of.mankind> Message-ID: References: <20100715021709.5544.64506.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20100715021712.5544.44845.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <30448.1279800887@redhat.com> <1280524978.2452.9.camel@segv.aura.of.mankind> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LSU 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 24 On Friday 2010-07-30 23:22, utz lehmann wrote: >On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> But the fact is, th Unix ctime semantics are insane and largely >> useless. There's a damn good reason almost nobody uses ctime under >> unix. >> >> So what I'm suggesting is that we have a flag - either per-process or >> per-mount - that just says "use windows semantics for ctime". > >When abusing an existing time stamp use atime not ctime please. >ctime has it's uses. atime was just a mistake and is nearly useless. MUAs make use of atime. >And with noatime we already have creation time semantics for atime. noatime was a late afterthought, and because it can interfere with some programs, relatime came along too. -- 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/