[Jfs-discussion] file create time

[Bjoern JACKE]

On 2006-02-01 at 07:34 -0600 Dave Kleikamp sent off:
>> Is there a way to access and/or to modify the 
>> creation time of a fime on Linux/AIX JFS2 ?
>
>Only through the jfs_debugfs utility.  The timestamp is set when the
>file is created, but never modified after that.
>
>Herbert Poetzl just submitted a patch which implements ioctls for jfs.

that sounds good. Can you tell which kernel version this will be
in or give any pointers to it?


>It would be possible to add commands to fetch and set the creation time.
>I'm guessing this is something that samba might use.

Yes, that's why I'm asking for. It would be nice to have a generic 
birth time stamp as it exists on some BSD systems but I think there 
are no such efforts on Linux. So to use it with JFS there is a 
filesystem specific hook needed.

Bjoern