From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 18:59:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6C837B6CC for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA19666; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:58:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:58:59 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: Peter Jeremy Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file creation times ? Message-ID: <20000524185859.A19573@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <00May25.110340est.115250@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <00May25.110340est.115250@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:03:38AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:03:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:35:11 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > > >On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:04:52PM +0400, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: > >> Arun Sharma writes: > >> > Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file creation times on > >> > the disk (apart from historical reasons) ? > > To put it another way, why _should_ FreeBSD store a file creation time? 0. I'm tired of seeing people putting "Created: mm/dd/yy" in their documents. 1. NTFS does it. It's a part of SMB. I suspect that Samba just uses the last modified time. 2. An average computer user would expect it. I didn't know that UNIX didn't keep track of file creation times 5-6 years after I started using it. > That's all Unix has ever offered (both the original AT&T FS and > FFS/UFS). If you really need a file creation time, you'll need a > different filesystem. I know. That's why I ask. So if someone designs a ext3fs killer journalling filesystem for BSD, would they consider adding it :) ? -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message