From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: ext4 and creation time Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:25:53 -0600 Message-ID: <20070527162553.GI5181@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <1180089677.27539.4.camel@garfield> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Cal Peake , Theodore Tso , extfs Mailing List To: Kalpak Shah Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:46672 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755914AbXE0QZz (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 12:25:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1180089677.27539.4.camel@garfield> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On May 25, 2007 16:11 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 06:13 -0400, Cal Peake wrote: > > I found this had already been brought up in the past but couldn't find if > > a definitive decision was made. > > > > Will ext4 include a creation time field? > > Yes, the creation time field will be in ext4. It has already been > included in Ted's e2fsprogs tree and will be included in the kernel when > the nanosecond patch is sent upstream. As a caveat, there is not yet any API to access this. One possibility is to add a virtual extended attribute like user.crtime that returns a struct timespec or similar. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.