[PATCH] erofs: derive atime instead of leaving it empty

Chao Yu yuchao0 at huawei.com
Wed Nov 4 11:57:07 AEDT 2020


On 2020/11/1 3:51, Gao Xiang wrote:
> From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at redhat.com>
> 
> EROFS has _only one_ ondisk timestamp (ctime is currently
> documented and recorded, we might also record mtime instead
> with a new compat feature if needed) for each extended inode
> since EROFS isn't mainly for archival purposes so no need to
> keep all timestamps on disk especially for Android scenarios
> due to security concerns. Also, romfs/cramfs don't have their
> own on-disk timestamp, and squashfs only records mtime instead.
> 
> Let's also derive access time from ondisk timestamp rather than
> leaving it empty, and if mtime/atime for each file are really
> needed for specific scenarios as well, we can also use xattrs
> to record them then.
> 
> Reported-by: nl6720 <nl6720 at gmail.com>
> [ Gao Xiang: It'd be better to backport for user-friendly concern. ]
> Fixes: 431339ba9042 ("staging: erofs: add inode operations")
> Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.19+
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at redhat.com>

Looks good to me. :)

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0 at huawei.com>

Thanks,


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