In article <[email protected]>, Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 16:49:26 +0000 > From: Kenny <[email protected]> > Message-ID: ><TzLeIE0t9qf1WtyTUeoR5t68Dn-Eil-hKct7-5tdFq3XEl2i6hsrRd11yKsC909ktiZTZDJMqwfehURUOZApL13IVyxH8la06d9Nhjur_bU=@protonmail.com> > > | 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
