Re:

Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cifs,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 at 04:11, NeilBrown <[email protected]> wrote:

> 10 years ago cifs *did* use ->d_time but was changed to use ->d_fsdata
> by Miklos with no justification (a00be0e31f8d).  Miklos: do you have any
> memory of why that was done?

Wanted to get rid of d_time, as it is no longer used by VFS, only a
handful of filesystems.   Still a worthwhile goal, IMO.

Thanks,
Miklos
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