Hello Vincent!
Sorry, I didn't understand that stuff around path2cookie().
The kernel itself is responsible to handle symlinks, not the xfs.The xfs interface getxattr/stat64 shall always return the attributes of the object, whatever it is (a symlink object have mode S_IFLNK).
To support symlinks the xfs have to provide symlink (create a symlink) and readlink (get the target the symlink point to).
I don't think that the times are the reason. If the xfs get localtime it can easily convert it to UTC. Just take a look into the ext2 xfs.
Regards, Frank -- ATARI FALCON 060 // MILAN 060 ----------------------------- http://sparemint.org/ e-Mail: fnaumann@boerde.de