12 Mar
2025
12 Mar
'25
2:46 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 01:33:14PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
OK, how much credence would you give to Ritchie and Thompson writing
in The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 57, No. 6, July-August
1978, page 1914[1], where they state that the i-node contains:
(v) time of creation, last use, and last modification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[1] https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/BSTJ/bstj57-6-1905.pdf
There are some of us Penguins who actually cared enough to do some
research using the TUHS archives... :-)
- Ted
As part of a discusion on the Linux kernel
mailing list, there was an
assertion that ctime was orginally "creation time".
[...]
It's been "inode change time" for as long as I can remember (and
that's
since the 70s); I have no idea what the Penguins are on about, but I've
never given them much credence anyway.