[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8011: closed (cp --preserve=timestamps don't preserve crtime (created time))

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> cp --preserve=timestamps don't preserve crtime (created time)
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> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:03:43 +0000 (GMT)
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> Thx for your great job and for useful, powerfull and stable utilities.
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> No realy a bug, because crtime was recently implanted in ext4,  but i will be 
> happy to see created timestamp preserve on copy.
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> Symptoms :
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> cp --version : 8.9
> cp --preserve=timestamps fileOriginal fileCopy
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> sudo debugfs -R 'stat <inode of fileOriginal>' /dev/sda1
>  ctime: 0x4d196ae0:95e62538 -- Tue Dec 28 05:43:12 2010
>  atime: 0x4d529bbc:5b795bd0 -- Wed Feb  9 14:50:52 2011
>  mtime: 0x4d196ae0:888c2d38 -- Tue Dec 28 05:43:12 2010
> crtime: 0x4d196ae0:888c2d38 -- Tue Dec 28 05:43:12 2010
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> sudo debugfs -R 'stat <inode of fileCopy>' /dev/sda1
>  ctime: 0x4d5342ce:2442ab18 -- Thu Feb 10 02:43:42 2011
>  atime: 0x4d529bbc:5b795bd0 -- Wed Feb  9 14:50:52 2011
>  mtime: 0x4d196ae0:888c2d38 -- Tue Dec 28 05:43:12 2010
> crtime: 0x4d5342ce:225a6318 -- Thu Feb 10 02:43:42 2011
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> atime and mtime are preserved but 
> crtime is modified.
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> Thx a lot!
> Cristian
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> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:44:28 +0100
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> Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 02/09/2011 08:03 PM, Cristian Pop wrote:
> >> Thx for your great job and for useful, powerfull and stable utilities.
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> Thanks.
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> >> No realy a bug, because crtime was recently implanted in ext4,  but i will be
> >> happy to see created timestamp preserve on copy.
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> > Thanks for the report; however, there is no way to set crtime (aka
> > birthtime).  Therefore, there is no way to preserve it.
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> Thanks for responding, Eric.
> I'm closing this ticket.
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