Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omx1.americas.sgi.com (omx1-ext.sgi.com [192.48.179.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i91FxccY021384 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:59:39 -0700 Received: from flecktone.americas.sgi.com (flecktone.americas.sgi.com [192.48.203.135]) by omx1.americas.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id i91FxQQh024007 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:59:26 -0500 Received: from tulip-e236.americas.sgi.com (tulip-e236.americas.sgi.com [128.162.236.208]) by flecktone.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.10/SGI_generic_relay-1.2) with ESMTP id i91FxFOV48325736; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:59:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sgi.com (chewtoy.americas.sgi.com [128.162.233.33]) by tulip-e236.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/SGI-server-1.8) with ESMTP id i91FxFxM835898; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:59:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200410011559.i91FxFxM835898@tulip-e236.americas.sgi.com> To: Christoph Hellwig cc: vijaya saradhi uppaluri , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: xfs setting inode ctime Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:59:15 -0500 From: Dean Roehrich X-archive-position: 4204 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: roehrich@sgi.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs >From: Christoph Hellwig >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:47:03AM +0530, vijaya saradhi uppaluri wrote: >> Dean, >> >> Thanks for your response. I am currently working on stack of file >> systems where I set the attribute ATTR_CTIME and expect the underlying >> file-system to set the ctime to the value I pass. It is working on >> other file-systems(ext2) on linux. > >Dean, I think we should change change XFS to use the value provided >by ->setattr to conform to the inkernel API specified by the Linux kernel. I agree. Ug, xfs_setattr is a real beaut, isn't it? Dean