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

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Nov 12 2012 - 04:20:57 EST


Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> What was difference with XFS, FAT, and MSDOS?
> Okay, the description of patch was lacked, So I will resend patch with
> specifical test reseult with other filesystem.
>>
>> BTW, I recall I checked this, and yes, it is strange. But it is historical.
> "historical" means It is difficult to change ?

The timestamp handling was not same with unix fs from initial, and FAT
doesn't have inode change timestamp. This historical reason it is not
better to change to same with unix fs, and never be possible to support
inode change timestamp cleanly.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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