From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) Subject: Re: VMS Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 21:58:58 GMT
In article <1265@felix.sublink.org> of comp.os.linux,
eb@felix.Sublink.Org (Enrico Badella) writes:
>
> The only possible critic to the Unix filesystem is that the creation date
> of a file is missing; it could be usefull for security considerations.
>
> Another 2 cents...
>
The standard UNIX filesystems store three dates: file creation, last
file modification, and last file access. Is it something else you are
looking for? Note that this is *not* true for the minix, extfs and
xiafs filesystems on Linux. It *is* true for ext2fs.
/hpa
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