[PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Jun 28 13:21:05 MDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> That sounds better but it hits the fs, vfs and libc
> and seems like libc is near impossible to get changes into.

If you do it properly it's not hard to get changes into libc.

Let's do it properly instead of adding hacks like that.  Synthetic
xattrs causes much more problems than they solve.



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