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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:55:11 +1000
From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Creation time in XFS
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> writes:
> 
>> No XFS does not support creation time. It just has the regular
>> atime,mtime and ctime.
>> There are no plans that I've heard to support it.
>> Not much involved to support it AFAICT but it would either involve
>> changing the ondisk format of the inode or storing it in an EA.
> 
> If you ever change the on disk format adding a file type similar to ext3
> to directories could also greatly speed up find in many cases.
> 
Sounds a good idea.
In that case a new ondisk directory format (at v2 at the moment).
I think Dave (dgc) might have been mentioning something about that
recently.

--Tim