From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@aol.com>, <linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>, nl6720 <nl6720@gmail.com>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] erofs: derive atime instead of leaving it empty
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 08:57:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf522e01-97c6-e9b7-6f28-f88b64233aaf@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201031195102.21221-1-hsiangkao@aol.com>
On 2020/11/1 3:51, Gao Xiang wrote:
> From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
>
> EROFS has _only one_ ondisk timestamp (ctime is currently
> documented and recorded, we might also record mtime instead
> with a new compat feature if needed) for each extended inode
> since EROFS isn't mainly for archival purposes so no need to
> keep all timestamps on disk especially for Android scenarios
> due to security concerns. Also, romfs/cramfs don't have their
> own on-disk timestamp, and squashfs only records mtime instead.
>
> Let's also derive access time from ondisk timestamp rather than
> leaving it empty, and if mtime/atime for each file are really
> needed for specific scenarios as well, we can also use xattrs
> to record them then.
>
> Reported-by: nl6720 <nl6720@gmail.com>
> [ Gao Xiang: It'd be better to backport for user-friendly concern. ]
> Fixes: 431339ba9042 ("staging: erofs: add inode operations")
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19+
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Looks good to me. :)
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Thanks,
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-04 0:57 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20201031195102.21221-1-hsiangkao.ref@aol.com>
2020-10-31 19:51 ` Gao Xiang
2020-11-03 2:50 ` Gao Xiang
2020-11-03 15:58 ` Chao Yu
2020-11-03 17:04 ` Gao Xiang
2020-11-04 0:57 ` Chao Yu [this message]
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