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I got know here the following:
Most unices do not have a concept of file creation time. You can't make ls print it because the information is not recorded. If you need creation time, use a version control system: define creation time as the check-in time.
There it is mentioned that ext4 stores some such metadata but there is no easy way to use it in the ls command.
So I want to know
Which filesystem on Linux stores or allows users to store the following meta-data:
file creation time
date accessed
date last modified
that can be accessed by standard shell tools?
It seems NTFS supports a very large amount of metadata.
Tem Pora
Posted 2014-06-15T08:29:48.807
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I haven't researched this, but I've seen posts about it. AFAIK, it's not really an OS problem as much as it is a file system one. I think ext4 and maybe btrfs, do have a file creation time field, but most other file systems do not. Also, it's a tricky concept to use because if the file has been modified since it was created (which it would always have been unless it was created with something like touch), it's not entirely clear (at least to me) what this field would really be good for - maybe for forensics. No idea about the standard utilities reporting as I have only used ext[34]. – Joe – 2014-06-17T21:48:25.823