On Friday, August 19, 2005 @ 3:46 AM, Sid Boyce wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems says that Reiser and ext do not support creation time-stamps. If this is true, why?
If there's a reason for FAT etc to have creation time-stamps, then that same reason will apply to Reiser/ext too, no?
I haven't checked the URL to see quite what they mean, but if we are on the same wavelength, any file on any filesystem has a creation date and time and if necessary, you can "touch file" so it updates the date and time to now. # vi abcd # ls -l abcd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 2005-08-19 12:39 abcd # touch abcd # ls -l abcd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 2005-08-19 12:45 abcd
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But Sid, we're talking about a date that would NOT be replaced; i. e., it would continue to show the original creation date. To do that, you'd need 3 dates -- *) Creation -- Never modified after file was originally created *) Updated -- Modified any time the file is updated *) Accessed -- Modified any time the file was touched Greg Wallace