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 > -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
