[PATCH] erofs: rename ctime to mtime
Gao Xiang
hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Wed Mar 16 15:44:58 AEDT 2022
Hi David,
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:47:20PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 04:18:29AM +0000, David Anderson via Linux-erofs wrote:
> > EROFS images should inherit modification time rather than creation time,
> > since users and host tooling have no easy way to control creation time.
> > To reflect the new timestamp meaning, i_ctime and i_ctime_nsec are
> > renamed to i_mtime and i_mtime_nsec.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dvander at google.com>
>
> Thanks for the patch!
>
> This patch looks good to me, yet, should we update
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst#n43
>
> here as well? (I think "Inode timestamp" might be fine..)
Since another -rc8 is out, would you mind revising the patch with
the document update... Or would you mind if I could help revise it?
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
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