Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Pedro Giffuni <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: birthtime initialization Message-ID: <232373.60220.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080723032929.F18594@delplex.bde.org>
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--- Mar 22/7/08, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> ha scritto:
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>
> > Tim has some patches I made to add support for
> birthtime in libarchive (only in extended pax format) as a
> LIBARCHIVE.creationtime attribute.
> >
> > Since birthtime is set by modifying mtime twice with
> utimes(2), the only criteria I used to determine if
> birthtime should be stored is if it was less than mtime. I
> hope something can be done to make that behavior consistent
> with UFS2 in all other filesystems.
>
> Can't it check for st_birthtime.tv_sec being != 0 or
> -1?
OK, I can do that, in fact I had it like that originally but then strictly speaking those values are valid and I had to check for birthtime==mtime anyways. Admittedly no BSD system was available before Jan 1st 1970 so I will modify the check to avoid those times.
Pedro.
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