In article <[email protected]>,
Robert Elz  <[email protected]> wrote:
>    Date:        Fri, 28 May 2021 16:49:26 +0000
>    From:        Kenny <[email protected]>
>    Message-ID: 
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>  | I am using NetBSD 9.2 (amd64) with ZFS as file system and I have
>  | not found a command to change btime for my files.
>
>Don't bother, the birth time is a total waste of space.  It is used
>by nothing that matters, and is useful for nothing at all.   It is
>mostly unsupported (in that the stat command is just about the only
>way to view it, and while it is possible to set it, but not arbitrarily,
>the procedure is baroque and not worth explaining).

The baroque procedure is described in the manual page of utimes(2) where
one would expect it :-)

christos

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