From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 26 10:48:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4CF37BFFA for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcov@toad.stack.nl) Received: from hermes.tue.nl [131.155.2.46] by kweetal.tue.nl (8.9.3) for id TAA06465 (ESMTP); Fri, 26 May 2000 19:48:06 +0200 (MDT) Received: from deathstar (n49.dial.tue.nl [131.155.209.48]) by hermes.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0E72E802 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 19:48:04 +0200 (CEST) From: "Marco van de Voort" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:49:21 +0100 Subject: Re: file creation times ? References: <20000524185859.A19573@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:59:41AM +1000 In-reply-to: <00May25.131527est.115222@border.alcanet.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Message-Id: <20000526174804.8C0E72E802@hermes.tue.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's not justification for putting a creation time into the UFS. > Different filesystems store different information - depending on > what the FS developers saw as important. You could just as easily > point out the deficiencies of NTFS based on it's inability to > support all the metadata in NFS. I know very little of filesystems, but I know that NTFS is extensible (and supports several file strains). So probably that is not a limitation of NTFS, but of the NT implementation of it. E.g. Mac stuff is stored in an extra strain, extra attributes can be stored in the MFS etc etc. One could write a *nix NTFS driver that supported NFS metadata. Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl or marco@freepascal.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message