[linux-cifs-client] File Creation Time

[Sam Flory]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:29 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:12:08 -0800
> Sam Flory <sam.flory at codegreennetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to get creation time for a file on a windows cifs server?
> > If yes is there a command or system call to get it?
> > 
> 
> Not currently, no. CreationTime in the returned attributes are pretty
> much ignored, primarily because we don't have a place to put in in the
> POSIX stat struct.
> 
> You could maybe consider doing something like faking up an xattr with
> that info, but the code for that doesn't exist today.
> 

Thanks Jeff that's very useful info.  I'll look into that, but I'm not
sure it's worth supporting yet another hack of a patch in our kernel.

Ps- Thanks everyone. We've really been pleased with the stability, and
compatibility of the cifs driver.