[Jfs-discussion] file create time

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 15:05 +0100, Bjoern JACKE wrote:
> 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?

He just submitted it to the jfs-discussion mailing list this morning, so
it needs a little bit of review, but I think it will probably make the
2.6.17 kernel.

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

We can probably get this in at the same time.  It shouldn't be hard.

> 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
> 
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center