Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
Stat does not seem to recognize any timestamps for file birth, even when they are available and accurate. My filesystem is ext4. To reproduce, I ran: touch /root/test. Then I ran: stat /root/test. Output: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File: ‘/root/test’ Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 13 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2015-07-27 16:05:42.885356874 -0700 Modify: 2015-07-27 16:05:42.885356874 -0700 Change: 2015-07-27 16:05:42.885356874 -0700 Birth: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thereafter I ran: debugfs -R 'stat /root/test' /dev/sda2. Output below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- debugfs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Inode: 13 Type: regular Mode: 0644 Flags: 0x80000 Generation: 840633321 Version: 0x00000000:00000001 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 0 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x55b6b946:d315e528 -- Mon Jul 27 16:05:42 2015 atime: 0x55b6b946:d315e528 -- Mon Jul 27 16:05:42 2015 mtime: 0x55b6b946:d315e528 -- Mon Jul 27 16:05:42 2015 crtime: 0x55b6b946:d315e528 -- Mon Jul 27 16:05:42 2015 Size of extra inode fields: 28 EXTENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The crtime (file birth) timestamp is is there and functioning normally. As far as I know, this version of stat is supposed to have support for crtime on ext4. I have not tested any other filesystem types yet. As a side note, I know running as root is a bad idea, but debugfs complained when I tried to use it with sudo. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
