On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 03:28:58 PM Robert White wrote: > I've been thinking "ctime" is/was (still) "create time". It seems that > somewhere in the last couple decades it became "change time"; Or that I > picked up that incorrect "create time" idea back in the UNIX Sys V R 3 > days and just never had cause to think about it again...
Sadly there's never been a creation time in Linux that you can get with a standard system call, there was an attempt 4-5 years ago to get xstat merged that would include creation time from filesystems that support it (like ext4) but it never went anywhere (for a variety of reasons). LWN article on the patch set: https://lwn.net/Articles/394298/ Linus knocking it back: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/22/249 FreeBSD has: st_birthtim Time when the inode was created. No idea when that was added! All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
