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From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Subject: Re: ext4 - getting at birth time (file create time) and getting/setting
 nanosecond time stamps and utime
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:12:46 -0700
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> As for _updating_ create time, isn't that sort of defeating the purpose
> of create time?

Maybe one would want to restore the original create times when restoring
from backups?

- z