[PATCH] erofs: rename ctime to mtime

David Anderson dvander at google.com
Fri Mar 18 15:54:28 AEDT 2022


Sorry about this - thank you for updating the patch!

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 9:45 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>
wrote:

> 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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