Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's talk about file system timestamps. What kind of timestamps are there currently, and what are they used for? This is a late reply, but I haven't seen that question of yours answered so far, so I try to give it a shot. First of all, time stamp support depends on

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-09-13 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's talk about file system timestamps. What kind of timestamps are there currently, and what are they used for? This is a late reply, but I haven't seen that question of yours answered so far, so I try to give it a shot. First of all, time

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that every stuff like this is different here and there, and actually the topic should have been named something like let's make a filesystem, what timestamps would you recommend?. I've already looked up information about the UFS times (didn't know what

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-09-13 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: All properties (meta data) of a file are stored in the inode. That includes owner, permissions, flags, and all the time stamps, including the birth time. So if you have multiple entries (hard links) pointing to the same inode, they point to the same meta data. In other

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-08-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-19 17:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's talk about file system timestamps. What kind of timestamps are there currently, and what are they used for? (or what new timestamps would be needed/beneficial, or whatever.) Currently I can think of only two: 1. data_time: The last time the