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-rw-r--r--docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storecreatetime.xml15
-rw-r--r--docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storecreatetime.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storecreatetime.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5957a5db10..0000000000
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storecreatetime.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-<samba:parameter name="store create time"
- context="S"
- type="boolean"
- xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
-<description>
- <para>
- If this parameter is set Samba attempts to store a create timestamp on any file or directory created by Samba
- in a filesystem extended attribute. The data is written as an 8 byte Windows timestamp in little-endian form
- in attribute named "user.DosTimestamps". This extended attribute is explicitly hidden from smbd clients requesting an
- EA list. On Linux the filesystem must have been mounted with the mount option user_xattr in order for
- extended attributes to work, also extended attributes must be compiled into the Linux kernel.
- </para>
-</description>
-<value type="default">no</value>
-</samba:parameter>
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml
index 6fcab82f9c..621b4ace74 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@
attribute named "user.DOSATTRIB". This extended attribute is explicitly hidden from smbd clients requesting an
EA list. On Linux the filesystem must have been mounted with the mount option user_xattr in order for
extended attributes to work, also extended attributes must be compiled into the Linux kernel.
+
+ In Samba 3.5.0 and above the "user.DOSATTRIB" extended attribute has been extended to store
+ the create time for a file as well as the DOS attributes. This is done in a backwards compatible
+ way so files created by Samba 3.5.0 and above can still have the DOS attribute read from this
+ extended attribute by earlier versions of Samba, but they will not be able to read the create
+ time stored there. Storing the create time separately from the normal filesystem meta-data
+ allows Samba to faithfully reproduce NTFS semantics on top of a POSIX filesystem.
</para>
</description>
<value type="default">no</value>