[OpenAFS] File Creation and Modification Time in AFS

Dean Anderson dean@av8.com
Wed, 28 May 2003 16:42:41 -0400 (EDT)


Doh!  I meant ctime (attribute modification). Don't know why I thought
that was creation time.

I think attribute modification is always pushed back to the server. Access
time (every open) would be hard, and probably unncessary.

		--Dean

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jim Rees wrote:

> I have no interest in creation time, since unix doesn't use it.  Afs already
> has mod time.  Access time (atime) and attr-mod time (ctime) might be
> useful, but I don't see how the file server could maintain them given
> caching on the client.
>