Re: Creation time in XFS

[Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > No XFS does not support creation time. It just has the regular
> > atime,mtime and ctime.
> > There are no plans that I've heard to support it.
> > Not much involved to support it AFAICT but it would either involve
> > changing the ondisk format of the inode or storing it in an EA.
>
> If you ever change the on disk format adding a file type similar to ext3
> to directories could also greatly speed up find in many cases.
Sounds a good idea.
In that case a new ondisk directory format (at v2 at the moment).
I think Dave (dgc) might have been mentioning something about that
recently.

--Tim