Re: [PATCH 2/3] fat: fix time updates for create and delete

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Nov 12 2012 - 02:57:06 EST


Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 2012/11/12, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Correctly update modification and status change time in case of
>>> file/directory removal and creation.
>>
>> This changelog just explain "what", and it doesn't explain "why". Please
>> explain why we need this change.
>>
>> IIRC, timestamp handling in FAT driver is strange historically. Anyway,
>> FAT doesn't have "inode change time". It is "creation time" in FAT.
> Hi. OGAWA.
> I made this patch after comparing timestamp handlings with MSDOS and XFS.
> Should timestamp handling of FAT be same with MSDOS ?
> Am I missing ?

What was difference with XFS, FAT, and MSDOS?
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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