01-22-2019
I wouldn't write most BSD, Linux and UNIX systems do not save a file creation time.
- FreeBSD traditional file system is UFS2 and the trend is to switch to ZFS. Both of these file systems store the file creation time.
- Linux default file system on many distributions is ext4 which stores file creation time too. Some alternatives like btrfs and ZFS do also store it.
- OS X main file system is HFS Plus and it is transitioning to APFS, both store the creation time.
- On the Unix side, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX respectively default to ZFS, JFS, and VXFS. All three do store the creation time.
An exception is OpenBSD with FFS2.
Given the unfortunate lack of standard for this feature, the ways to retrieve that piece of information will vary depending on the OS. That might be
ls, the non standard
stat command, or something else.
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