On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:02:16 pm Bruno Lauzé wrote: > root@pcbsd:/dev # stat /dev/ada0 > 1895890688 97 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 97 0 "Feb 18 10:52:11 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Dec 31 17:59:59 1969" 4096 0 0 /dev/ada0 > > root@pcbsd:/dev # stat /dev/ada0p2 > 1895890688 103 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 103 0 "Feb 18 10:52:05 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Dec 31 17:59:59 1969" 4096 0 0 /dev/ada0p2 > > root@pcbsd:/dev # stat /dev/ada0p3 > 1895890688 105 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 105 0 "Feb 18 10:52:21 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Dec 31 17:59:59 1969" 4096 0 0 /dev/ada0p3 > > As we can see all files in devfs reports Dec 31 1969 as creation time. > > Can we look to manage this value to know when a certain device was installed? > > It would be really great to know when a disk was replaced. > > Would there be any other mechanism to accomplish this?
I think if you hot attach a device post-boot it will have the time it was attached as the birth time. I think it is only devices created during boot that use time 0. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
