[Eclug] File creation times

On 8/14/2006 22:13, David Krings wrote:
> 	No creation time....wierd.

Well I thought it was stored too, but a quick `man 2 stat` says
otherwise (what you discovered).  These various times are filesystem
dependent and IIRC, there are options you can set to disable certain of
them to improve performance (noatime mount option, etc...).

NTFS on windows does store creation time and now I really wonder if some
of the newer filesystems available on Linux actually do have a "ctime"
stored now, such as XFS, JFS, Reiser and so on.  This old box is just
plain old ext2.

>From the sound of the functions you're using your PHP is abstracting
things away.  I don't know PHP very well, but I do know it shares an
aweful lot with Perl, and Perl offers direct access to the stat() call.
 You might look to see if that's available and if your (newer?) system
has a creation time stored.  My stat(2) man page is circa 1995.

~Jason

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