On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:03:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:35:11 -0700, Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:04:52PM +0400, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote:
> >> Arun Sharma writes:
> >> > Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file creation times on
> >> > the disk (apart from historical reasons) ?
>
> To put it another way, why _should_ FreeBSD store a file creation time?
0. I'm tired of seeing people putting "Created: mm/dd/yy" in their documents.
1. NTFS does it. It's a part of SMB. I suspect that Samba just uses the
last modified time.
2. An average computer user would expect it. I didn't know that UNIX didn't
keep track of file creation times 5-6 years after I started using it.
> That's all Unix has ever offered (both the original AT&T FS and
> FFS/UFS). If you really need a file creation time, you'll need a
> different filesystem.
I know. That's why I ask. So if someone designs a ext3fs killer journalling
filesystem for BSD, would they consider adding it :) ?
-Arun
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