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File creation times

Posted Jul 29, 2010 4:50 UTC (Thu) by magfr (guest, #16052)
Parent article: File creation times

Another question is if the btime relates to the creation time of the file or of the link to the file?

Consider
touch f1
ln f1 f2
Is btime(f1) == btime(f2)?

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File creation times

Posted Jul 29, 2010 8:09 UTC (Thu) by eugeniy (subscriber, #24280) [Link]

Well, the metadata is stored in inode, and those links point to the same inode. So the answer is yes.