From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:52 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh-nopoi9nDyk+ELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> There just is no way currently to store creation times.

What do you mean?  Ext4 and BtrFS can both do so; it's just that there's no
user interface to it.

David