On 27 May 2025, at 17:54, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 09:15 -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: >> Hey Trond and Anna - this series looked ready to go, but seems to >> have never gotten upstream. Was there a problem that needed work? >> >> I'd like to rebase these and submit them, but will hold off if its a >> non-starter.. >> > > I believe the main issue raised at the time when we submitted all these > attributes was that we had the ioctl() to retrieve and set them. The > request from the community was that we use statx() to retrieve, and > then add a new system call to set them. > > btime already has support in statx(), so there was relatively little > work needed to convert these patches to use it. > > However for the other attributes (Windows Hidden, System, Archive > attributes and the backup time) the main issue was adding the new > system call to set them all. That work is yet to be done due to lack of > developer time. > > If you have time to revive these patches and push the btime changes > upstream, then that would be very welcome from our perspective. I'm > happy to help in any capacity that I can. Great news! I did rebase and post just the btime portion, it needs a v2 so I'll work on moving it along. Ben
