David R Boldt wrote: > > My background is Unix and so the treatment of date/time by > Windows and its interaction with AFS is a bit fuzzy to me. > > My understanding for Unix is that of the three dates normally > stored, atime, ctime and mtime, when saving to AFS, stores > mtime. > > Windows seems to store at least two dates, a creation date > and a modified date. Anecdotal evidence suggests that > Windows, or at least some applications within Windows, > store the creation date in the single AFS date/time slot. > > Some light on my state of information darkness would be > greatly appreciated. > > -- David Boldt
Windows maintains creationTime lastAccessTime lastWriteTime changeTime the AFS file server does not communicate creationTime as part of the FetchStatus response and accessTime cannot be accurately tracked in AFS. Therefore, the AFS clientModTime is used for all four of the above values as reported to Windows. Jeffrey Altman
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