[OpenAFS-devel] Re: some requests

[Peter Somogyi]

Hi,

On Monday 21 February 2005 22.59, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> >> # 04:
...
> > In practice, the _real_ difference between ctime and mtime is that users
> > are allowed to change the mtime of files they own (both in and out of
> > AFS), and they are not allowed to change the ctime.  Would having the
> > cache manager report the ServerModTime as the ctime meet your needs? 
> > This could be done fairly trivially as a runtime configuration option in
> > the client, without requiring any changes to the protocol or server.
Yes, it's good for us, thanks.

>
> Also, iirc Athena has patches already to implement it; While it's simple
> to implement their patches are well-tested.
We would like to see that patch in the next OpenAFS version.

Peter