Re: [PATCH v3] tmpfs: support for file creation time

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 02 2022 - 14:43:25 EST


On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:43 AM Xavier Roche <xavier.roche@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Various filesystems (including ext4) now support file creation time.
> This patch adds such support for tmpfs-based filesystems.

What's the odd huge-page noise in this patch?

Other oddities:

Reply-To: b954973a-b8d1-cab8-63bd-6ea8063de3@xxxxxxxxxx

WHAT?

And finally - if we really want to treat btime as a first-class entity
and expect things like tmpfs to support it, then we should just bite
the bullet and put it in 'struct inode' along with the other times.

Linus