Hi Jan + list On Fri 131101, Jan Schmidt wrote: > Hi Karl, > > On Fri, October 25, 2013 at 15:12 (+0200), Karl Kiniger wrote: > > is there low level support to change inode ctimes somehow? > > (on ext[234] it can be done using debugfs) > > No. Yes :-), offline only of course > > > It would be nice to make received snapshots as similar as > > possible to their send source. (I am not talking about > > uuids and such, just ls -lc output) > > This is not planned. Currently, we do not even preserve the inode number. Can > you give a short explanation of your use case, why do you need to keep the ctime? > > Thanks, > -Jan I just wanted to clone a btrfs with many snapshots and at the same time be able to mount both original and clone on the same computer. (I did not even try because I dont know what kind of pain the duplicate uuids will cause) Is there a known way to re-UUID such a cloned btrfs? I don't really "need" the ctime, its just convenient for looking whats new in some folder - wget adjusts the mtime and unix/linux lacks the "file creation time" time stamp. Greetings, Karl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
